[sldev] Re: [META] How LL can profit from open source

Lawson English lenglish5 at cox.net
Sat Aug 23 20:37:29 PDT 2008


Argent Stonecutter wrote:
> Where was this originally posted? I don't recall seeing this... if it 
> was posted here it must have been a long time ago.
>
>> Enforce a license such that anyone who wants to develop assets for SL
>> and use SL IP must either sell their assets through your marketplace
>> or use advertising partnerships via your marketplace if they're going
>> to use advertising as their source of revenue.
>
> What on earth does this have to do with open source? Nothing with that 
> kind of limitation on it can be described as "open source" in any sense.
>
Commercial artistic content can be made using opensource or closed 
source applications. I don't think its a relevant issue, either way.


Lawson


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