[sldev] Armchair lawyers

[Douglas Moon]

I think the relevant point is that they can't do it using the open  
source (GPL) client code. If someone wants to release a non-GPL  
client addon / non-GPL client version, then they have to use non-GPL- 
acquired client code (i.e. reach some sort of separate licensing  
aggreement with LL). Right?

D.

On Apr 9, 2007, at 12:17 PM, Argent Stonecutter wrote:

>> I know what you're doing. You just can't give up hope that maybe  
>> Linden
>> Lab will grant you an exception so you can develop whatever closed
>> source plugins you have in mind. But the fact is, Linden Lab has said
>> all it needs to say by the simple act of choosing the GPL.
>
> So long as the rights system exists in-world, you can't say that  
> LL's choice of the GPL for the viewer is the final word on  
> anything. And the fact that Linus Torvalds interprets the GPL  
> differently from Richard Stallman means they get to say what the  
> final word is. And the fact that they're using a modified GPL means  
> they also may have other differences of opinion from RMS and the FSF.
>
> If they see an advantage to extending the SL economy into the  
> client, why wouldn't they do it?
>
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