[opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy

[Ryan McDougall]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 9:40 PM, Soft Linden <soft at lindenlab.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Soft Linden <soft at lindenlab.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Ryan McDougall <sempuki1 at gmail.com> 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?
>>
>> This only applies to viewers based on our GPL'd viewer source. I'll
>> point that out to legal - I know the intent was to make that specific,
>> and this was an oversight.
>
> I just checked before writing to legal, and this phrase is already
> included in 3.b.iii:
> "if you have based your application on the official Second Life
> viewer, which we have made available under the GPL"
>
> So this guy's already covered.
>

Not sure how I missed that -- or maybe I am (too much legalese text).
Can you also clarify what the penalties are for non-compliance?

Cheers,