[sldev] Compile as installer

Argent Stonecutter secret.argent at gmail.com
Thu Jan 24 05:19:30 PST 2008


On 2008-01-24, at 03:20, Robin Cornelius wrote:
> Also be very careful if you are distributing files, there are a good
> number of (non linden) files that have licenses that do not permit
> redistribution; fmod,the voice stuff,the ttf fonts to name a few.

Still?

Does the Linden version of the GPL explicitly exclude those  
libraries? If not, you can't legally distribute a binary version of  
the open source client, since those are not a standard part of the OS  
it runs on. Not that that's likely to create practical problems,  
given that it's unlikely Linden Labs will get on your case about it.

The FLOSS exception does not appear to cover this, and according to  
the FSF the fact that they're shared libraries doesn't make a  
difference: shared libraries are not 'independent and separate works'.



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