[sldev] Voice=Proprietary

Tim Shephard tshephard at gmail.com
Sat Mar 10 18:27:50 PST 2007


Well, there are two points here.

One ... can we get SL to a point where we can merge in GPL code?
This is the point I think people care mostly about on this list.

The other point is, should proprietary plugins be a big part of SL?
That's a different, more philosophical question that I doubt we'll
arrive at a valuable consensus on.

On 3/10/07, Jason Giglio <gigstaggart at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tim Shephard wrote:
> > 03/05/2007  03:36 PM           667,648 dwTVC.exe
> > 03/08/2007  03:04 PM        12,455,936 SecondLifeVoiceBeta.exe
> > 03/09/2007  01:48 PM           407,341 uninst.exe
> > 03/08/2007  02:59 PM            53,248 updater.exe
> > 03/05/2007  03:36 PM         2,973,696 vivox-gw.exe
> > 03/08/2007  02:59 PM           446,464 win_crash_logger.exe
> >
> > dwTVC (diamondware?) and vivox-gw seem to be our candidates here.
> >
> > On 3/10/07, Tim Shephard <tshephard at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I think it's a seperate process that's running the voice stuff.
> >> Someone correct me if I am wrong..
>
> That's not the point.
>
> If it's fair game for them to add proprietary extensions for new
> features, the open source part of the client becomes more and more
> crippled and irrelevant as more of the new core functionality becomes
> locked into proprietary parts that can't be redistributed.
>
> -Jason
>


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