[sldev] Upcoming viewer releases?

[Dale Glass]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 09:44:24AM -0700, Dzonatas wrote:
> There absolutely no need for LL to have you sign a contribution in order 
> for LL to produce a Open Source version of the viewer. There is only a 
> need to sign the contribution if LL wishes to use your contribution 
> under conditions they can re-license the code completely. At this point, 
> there is no effort by LL to produce a version of the viewer with 
> contributions that are meant only for the Open Source viewer.
Right, but why should they? I could take some code I released, slap the
GPL2 on it, and not accept any patches. Or I could accept patches on the
condition you fly here and stand on your head. None of that would make
the original release less Open Source.


> You seem to understand the waste of time it is to contribute code that 
> never gets accepted by LL, but do you realize that it could still be 
> accepted in the Open Source viewer.
> 
> Those that may never want to sign a contribution agreement should be 
> given the chance to contribute to the Open Source viewer.
I have one, Nicholaz Beresford has another. 

In fact I work pretty much from that premise: At the time I don't so
much "contribute" as manage my own fork of the source. I would like to
see that stuff eventually merged, but it's not essential to me at the
time. If needed, I'll continue maintaining my fork as long as necessary.

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