[opensource-dev] A note on preserving "NO WARRANTY" for SL TPV developers

[Tayra Dagostino]

Agree, TPV mean warranty for users, a copybot feature is a malicious  
volontary written code, not a bug

Bugs are license free :)

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Il giorno 30/mar/2010, alle ore 17.31, malachi <malachi at tamzap.com> ha  
scritto:

> just my 2 cents.....
>
>
> * Second Life Viewer Source Code
>  * The source code in this file ("Source Code") is provided by  
> Linden Lab
>  * to you under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version  
> 2.0
>  * ("GPL"), unless you have obtained a separate licensing agreement
>  * ("Other License"), formally executed by you and Linden Lab.   
> Terms of
>  * the GPL can be found in doc/GPL-license.txt in this distribution,  
> or
>  * online at http://secondlifegrid.net/programs/open_source/licensing/gplv2
>
>
>
> TPV policy is irrelevant..... the license in which we were given the
> code clearly states as is seen at the web URL listed above that......
>
>
> Also, for each author's protection and ours, we want to make certain
> that everyone understands that there is no warranty for this free
> software. If the software is modified by someone else and passed on,  
> we
> want its recipients to know that what they have is not the original,  
> so
> that any problems introduced by others will not reflect on the  
> original
> authors' reputations.
>
>
> You may not impose any further
> restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein.
>
>
> so just my 2 cents but since i recieved the code under GPL there  
> isnt a
> dang thing Linden Lab or anyone else can do to me legally for  
> created a
> client that doesnt abide by the TPV. They lost their right to tell us
> what we are allowed to do with the code when they used GPL.
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