[opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy

[Lawson English]

Ryan McDougall wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Soft Linden <soft at lindenlab.com> wrote:
>   
>> If you see any wording that's ambiguous about that, let us know.
>>     
>
> Section 3.b.iii says that Third-party viewers must comply with the GPL license.
>
> What if the view is not licensed under the GPL at all -- say Apache 2.0?
>
> Cheers,
>   

For a real life use case, the realxtend developers are currently 
debating whether or not it is worth their while to continue to add more 
support to SL rather than just go with OpenSim-only.

If LL's aim was to squelch all third party work on SL-compatible 
viewers, they've done admirably.

If not, they've just shot themselves in the foot with a blended metal 
bullet:

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/180211/blended_metal_vs_ham/


Lawson