[sldev] Re: Plugin architecture

[Callum Lerwick]

On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 21:04 -0500, Jason Giglio wrote:
> Tim Shephard wrote:
> > On 3/3/07, John Hurliman <jhurliman at wsu.edu> wrote:
> >> Callum Lerwick wrote:
> >> > slviewer is currently GPL, and only GPL. The GPL very explicitly
> >> > disallows proprietary "derived works". This means plugins. So unless 
> >> the
> >> > license changes, sorry, no proprietary plugins.
> >> >
> >> >
> > 
> > Callum is right.
> 
> Not really.  The SL Viewer is GPL+FLOSS stuff.  That means the SL Viewer 
> is not GPL compatible, and can't be linked with GPL code.

And the viewer is licensed under the GPL with a FLOSS exception:

http://secondlife.com/developers/opensource/flossexception

Which I have to say is written in such thick round-about lawyer-speak
I'm not sure I fully understand it. Near as I can tell, its designed to
take care of this situation. And AFAIK the non-GPL bits its referring to
are the various third party libraries it uses, all Linden code is GPL.

I don't know where you get "can't be linked with GPL code" from. GPL is
GPL compatible by definition, and plenty of other licenses are GPL
compatible:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html

Linden Lab seems to be on the ball as far as licensing, which is why I
don't think they chose to license their code solely under the GPL just
because its trendy:

http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/gpl-compatible.html

Once I get slviewer submitted to Fedora, trust me, the licensing will be
well scrutinized...
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