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

Lawson English lenglish5 at cox.net
Tue Mar 18 20:56:36 PDT 2008


Gordon Wendt wrote:
> Wait, are you referring to the agreement anyone who contributes to 
> ll's dev efforts has to sign?  If you are then I'm sure LL has left 
> themselves a way out so that they can alter the agreement when they 
> want (I'm no lawyer but from my experiences as a consumer and 
> sometimes tester that seems to be normally the case) in which case it 
> would be up to LL and their lawyer team to do something to resolve 
> this... if they so wish.
>
> -G.W.
>

I think the  assumption below is wrong or that libsecondlife is tainted 
beyond hope already as Donovan Linden submitted a patch (IIRC) to enable 
libsl to use the LLSD-XML based login protocol.

Lawson

> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Ryan McDougall <ryan at 3di.jp 
> <mailto:ryan at 3di.jp>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     ----- "Charles Krinke" <cfk at pacbell.net <mailto:cfk at pacbell.net>>
>     wrote:
>
>     Thats not true, since anyone from Open Second Life has been
>     Tainted and is unable to participate in Open Sim. It sucks if your
>     first patch happened to be fore Second Life, because now you will
>     never be able to participate in Open Sim.
>
>     *Thats* where the schism lies, and thats the exclusion:
>
>     1. There is no choosing Open Sim if you started out on SL.
>     Everyone on SL-dev is tainted and can never help OpenSim.
>
>     2. In order to avoid taint, one must avoid open SL. OpenSim devs
>     can never go to SL-dev if they ever want back.
>
>     Two camps waving across the divide as they walk on by each other.
>     Doesn't sound very promising to me.
>
>     Cheers,
>
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