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

[Anders Arnholm]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 09:59:12AM -0500, Corax wrote:
> Tim Shephard wrote:
>> On Nov 9, 2007 7:10 PM, Tateru Nino <tateru.nino at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yeah, it's a great business model.  Contribute code and give up all
>> your copyrights to LL who then in turn sell your free code for money
>> to ESC.
> Is this true?  If I contribute code to LL, do I have to give up my rights 
> to license it only under the GPL?  If so, then I guess I will not be 

Yes, it's almost the same agreement you have to sign to contribute code
to any GNU (FSF) project. Thats hoiw thet so easy can change licence to
GPLv3. Some other stuff like Linux can't esilly change licence as Linus
have been acceptring patched without getting the copyright signed over.

> to sell it to someone else, and I haven't heard that LL was paying people 
> for code they contribute, nor are they paying people for all the work done 
> in tracking down and reporting bugs.  Yeah, great business model!

I know for a fact that most coding on the views get payed, you find them
in game with a last name of linden. If you are a GPL, free software
fanatic i guess that Linidens businice model is strange, if you are for
free open, available code, you would underdstand that your contributions
would always be as open as you give them away, even if the same code
exists in an other system. The BSD, kernel is still around open, the X11
code is still around open. Ssh is still around open, alll these projence
have contributed to other close source stuff but that don't magially
make the original dissapear, thet what great with knowledge, code, you
can copy and chage without destorying the original.

/ Balp
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