[sldev] Re: More plugin / platform harping..

[Tim Shephard]

There's no reason, that I can see, why our plugins can't hit our own servers.

In the end, the discussion I think is academic unless LL is willing to
open up the license - right now Microsoft is more open than Linden
Lab.

At least with Microsoft you can build and sell software extending
their platform.

On 6/15/07, Adam Frisby <adam at gwala.net> wrote:
> Linden Lab may be willing to accept "reference" code into the server if
> it is sufficiently modularised - vivox doesnt appear to be running on
> the SL simulators as is, so I do not know that's a specific requirement.
>
> You could do this purely clientside, with the clients reporting their
> positions (although this does need some careful analysis to make sure
> that you cant randomly enter someone elses conversation from afar using
> client mods)
>
> Adam
>
> Callum Lerwick wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 14:36 -0700, Tim Shephard wrote:
> >
> >>"Open source Second Life add-ons still months away"
> >>
> >>http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/2007/06/14/open-source-second-life-add-ons-still-months-away/
> >
> >
> > What that article doesn't mention, is re-basing patching upon a new
> > release is *easy*... if you have access to upstream's SCM.
> >
> > I'm also failing to see much use in plugins unless you have the ability
> > to extend the servers as well. Which we don't, in terms of communicating
> > new datatypes and new bits of object metadata between client and server.
> >
> > (currently pondering how to implement 100% open source voice chat,
> > without access to the sim source code. Its going to have to be a hack
> > any way you slice it...)
> >
> >
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