[sldev] [LICENSING] Vivox SLVoice.exe documentation

John Hurliman jhurliman at wsu.edu
Tue Sep 18 03:59:02 PDT 2007


Jason Giglio wrote:
> John Hurliman wrote:
>> rights. Without limitation, you may not use any portion of the 
>> Content to clone any portion of the Vivox
>> interface or to replicate Vivox code."
>
> It's pretty crappy that this was even released.  Now Vivox can sue us 
> if we replace the Vivox components, even if we never looked at that 
> spec.:(
>
> We'd have been better off with no spec, I think.
>
> -Jason

Speak for yourself, I never entered in to any agreement with Vivox that 
supersede my rights granted under the 1201(f) exemption of the DMCA. 
However, it might create problems documenting how the voice protocol 
works on the wiki if the redistribution language is too strict.

On a side note I don't think there is a serious legal problem here. If a 
company found it more beneficial to sue developers rather then porting 
their own code it would speak volumes about their competency as software 
and service provider.

John Hurliman


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