[sldev] About Linden Lab has not "completely accepted open source development"

[Tim Shephard]

Yeah, I find that term a bit onerous frankly.   I'd be OK with it if
LL were  to make that go both ways.

Ie, they agree never to assert their patents against me as long as I
agree never to assert mine against them.

Turnaround is fair play, after all..

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On 3/3/07, Callum Lerwick <seg at haxxed.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 15:30 -0800, Rob Lanphier wrote:
> > Quite frankly, I should probably advise /against/
> > having our developers listen to anyone who hasn't signed an agreement,
> > since it would be really bad to come up with a design, and then have
> > someone claim it was their idea and they didn't license it to us.
> > Perhaps it might make sense to actually have a separate mailing list
> > where only those who actually sign contributor agreements can post, and
> > make it clear that mailing list postings are contributions.
>
> What other open source project does this? Requiring copyright assignment
> for actual merged code, yes. Requiring it to blab on a mailing list is
> going a bit far.
>
> Besides, copyright only applies to actual code. Ownership of abstract
> "designs" and "ideas" falls under the realm of software patents. Which
> is a whole different matter...
>
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