[opensource-dev] Moving forward with open development

Ambroff Linden ambroff at lindenlab.com
Sun Mar 21 13:40:31 PDT 2010


On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Gareth Nelson <gareth at garethnelson.com>wrote:

> > - If you are going to contribute to Snowglobe, you will need to complete
> > the Second Life Viewer Contribution Agreement. While not everyone is
> > comfortable with it, we need to do it to protect our business interests.
> It
> > also protects you. I'll draft off of Sun's FAQ and this FSF page on the
> > topic.
>
> Bad example linking to the FSF page - the FSF don't produce
> proprietary forks (OnRez anyone?) and only ask for copyright
> assignment in order to aid enforcement of the license. As a registered
> charitable organisation, they would be forbidden legally from doing
> what LL did with OnRez.


I don't know if this is true or not, but regardless, copyright assignment
helps Linden enforce the GPL, which is good for everyone. That's why the FSF
was also used as an example.

-Ambroff
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