[sldev] ESC exempt from open source and GPL licensing?

[Hamncheese]

I was going to stay out of this since my comment in the first round earlier 
this week but this is crap. I don't work for LL or ESC and as far as I know 
none of my alts do either :).

I started wondering exactly what was in jeopardy here and went and looked at 
the public Jira to try to gauge how much a problem this is and found that so 
far......crickets. Corax contributed some comments on one or two jira and I 
found nothing for the rest. I didn't find any patches...unless I just missed 
them. I'm really struggling to understand the angst on this. If it really 
bothers you that you aren't making money off your contributions I'm sure the 
people watching the email behind the licensing at lindenlab.com address would 
be happy to talk to you.

There are only a couple of people involved in this community that deserve to 
bitch about commercial companies profiting off their hard work. And if you 
know what I'm talking about then you will also know that they have enough 
community following to launch their own viewer with great success. I'm not 
belittling any contributions anyone has made but let's get real about this.

As my grandpa used to say..."Put up or shut up." :)

Hamncheese Omlet

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Corax" <corax at ravenscall.net>
To: <sldev at lists.secondlife.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: [sldev] ESC exempt from open source and GPL licensing?


> Jason Giglio wrote:
>> LL gave *us* half a million lines of code, we've given them what? 10,000 
>> lines back?
>>
>> Keep it in perspective here.  What LL is doing is not even that unusual, 
>> and certainly not unprecedented.
>>
>> -Jason
> If I understand LL's licensing agreement correctly, I'm surprised they've 
> gotten 10,000 lines!  Few people like to work for free, or have other 
> people profit off them without sharing the profits.
>
> SL Corax Homewood
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