[sldev] Rolling a custom viewer installer?

[Rob Lanphier]

Hi Able,

I'm not going to be able to get you off the hook for reading and
understanding all of the license files in order to redistribute a
product based on them.  It puts me in dangerous territory to try to
paraphrase them.

What you have a license to redistribute depends on which components you
pull in.  Most of the viewer is available under GPL.  Some components
(e.g. Kakadu, FMOD, etc), are available under separate licenses, and are
marked in the libraries distribution.  Using our trademarks requires you
to follow our branding guidelines.  You'll need to read and understand
all of the applicable licenses in order to understand what rights and
obligations you have.

Rob

On 7/2/07 9:38 PM, Able Whitman wrote:
> Wow, I feel like tonight is the Soft and Able hour... :)
>
> On 7/2/07, *Soft Linden* <soft at lindenlab.com
> <mailto:soft at lindenlab.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     This is a good one to ping Rob or the licensing SL alias on directly.
>     I'm betting if you want to get Linden Lab's blessings on an official,
>     sanctioned release though, you'd find you had to relicense some
>     libraries yourself. :(
>
>
> Just to clarify, I'm definitely not looking for an official blessing.
> My only goal is to make it easier to package up a test build of the
> viewer that involves more than just the viewer executable.
>
> If I have to distribute a Zip file of loose files and provide
> instructions for hacking up an existing client install, that's okay.
> But being able to roll my own installer means that people who want to
> test my private build (or anyone's private build for that matter) can
> have a convenient way of installing a side-by-side viewer so that they
> can easily fallback to the official viewer if they so choose.
>
> Perhaps a compromise solution would be to distribute an installer
> which includes all the files except for the libraries that aren't
> redistributable? Then users could simply copy those missing files from
> their existing install into the folder for the private build.
>
> I don't know exactly what files can and can't be redistributed, nor do
> I pretend to know the particulars of the licensing issues, so I'll CC:
> Rob on this as well.
>
> Thanks!


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