[sldev] Rolling a custom viewer installer?

[Rob Lanphier]

On 7/10/07 9:39 AM, Able Whitman wrote:
> Thanks, Soft. I replied to Dale's thread with what information and
> practices I've been using with my own installer as well.
>
> I know LL has no obligation to provide guidance on how to compliantly
> redistribute custom viewers, but it would be a very nice thing indeed
> if they did! I'm not asking you or Rob for official guidelines, but I
> know LL employs some lawyers, so I would like to ask *them* for
> guidelines. :)

But they're *our* lawyers, and they're kinda busy.  :)

Seriously, though, if you need legal advice, you need to have a lawyer
who represents you.  We provide you with all of the licenses you need to
make a decision.  They say what they say.  Legal counsel is very
expensive, and as it turns out, our full-time staff is busy enough we'd
have to turn this request to outside counsel, which would be very
expensive for us.

As this program matures, I'm hopeful we'll be able to provide more
detailed FAQs, and be in a better position to help you out.  However,
right now, it's not going to work out that way.

I'd also like to request that for every mail you send to sldev about
licensing issues, that you send mail to licensing at lindenlab.com.  I do
not forward this type of mail from sldev to licensing.  Sending mail to
licensing at lindenlab.com gets your message to the right set of people,
without bothering the wrong set of people.

If you feel it's necessary to have further public conversation on this
topic, please file an issue on jira.secondlife.com, and direct further
traffic there.

Thanks
Rob


> On 7/10/07, *Soft Linden* <soft at lindenlab.com
> <mailto:soft at lindenlab.com>> wrote:
>
>     I don't have hard answers on this myself, and unfortunately Liana, the
>     key licensing person, is out this week. But you might want to be sure
>     you're on top of Dale Glass' work on redistribution (another thread).
>     He's tackling the same problem here, is doing a lot of research on the
>     library licenses, and has made an installer that attempts to be fully
>     compliant.
>
>     On 7/5/07, Able Whitman < able.whitman at gmail.com
>     <mailto:able.whitman at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > Rob,
>     >
>     > I apologize, I haven't been clear enough in asking my questions.
>     I'm not
>     > asking you, or anyone else, to interpret the licensing
>     agreements for the
>     > component libraries for me. Like you said, the licenses are
>     included and the
>     > onus is on me to adhere to them.
>     >
>     > Assuming that I have taken the responsibility for adhering to
>     all the
>     > various component licenses, if I also adhere to the guidelines for
>     > distributing the software itself (
>     > http://secondlife.com/corporate/trademark/distribution.php),
>     > as well as the trademark usage for web and print material
>     > (http://secondlife.com/corporate/trademark/print_web.php )
>     > and the policy for fan sites
>     > ( http://secondlife.com/community/fansites_regs.php), will
>     > it be permissible for me to distribute an installer for the
>     viewer built
>     > using the scripts included with the viewer source, or are there
>     other
>     > guidelines I need to follow as well?
>     >
>     > --Able
>     >
>     >
>     > On 7/5/07, Rob Lanphier <robla at lindenlab.com
>     <mailto:robla at lindenlab.com>> wrote:
>     > > 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.
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
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