[sldev] Violating the GPL by looking (Re: Voice Module)

[Ryan McDougall]

On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 03:25 -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote:
> > On 3/16/08 9:01 PM, Ryan McDougall wrote:
> > > Me personally, I'm not a big fan of that interpretation, but its one
> > > upheld by US court case law, risk-averse corporate lawyers for a major
> > > 3-letter computer company, and more importantly risk-averse OpenSim core
> > > developers.
> 
> I think its absolutely critical to this conversation to find the actual
> case law backing up this assertion. Anything less is empty handwaving by
> people who are not lawyers, and thus whose opinions don't matter, in
> matters of law.
> 
> I honestly want to know, so that I can account for it in any future
> licensing decisions I may make...

I'm afraid you'll have to speak with OpenSim core devs, since they are
the ones who spoke with the lawyers in question.

Perhaps people from both communities should have had this conversation a
long time ago.

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