[sldev] [META] Browser in Secondlife Viewer

[Rob Lanphier]

On 11/7/07 9:30 AM, Taran Rampersad wrote:
> Hamncheese wrote:
>   
>> Take a look at
>> http://secondlifegrid.net/programs/open_source/licensing under
>> commercial licensing.
>>     
> Yeah. The reality is that it is a BSD-Like license in practice. Oh,
> those very very smart people... See, the commercial license gets all the
> open source folks hard work and pays Linden Lab for it. Linden Lab, of
> course, turns around and pays open source developers in wooden prims. LOL
>   

Nice snark, but not right.  The commercial license brings in revenue for
Linden Lab so that we can continue to hire developers and publish
/their/ source code under GPL.  This model has been very successfully
deployed by many well respected projects, including MySQL, Ghostscript,
and Trolltech's Qt:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_licensing

Rob


-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 249 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
Url : http://lists.secondlife.com/pipermail/sldev/attachments/20071107/4069a4ad/signature.pgp