[sldev] Vivox and Kakadu licensing issues.

[Boy Lane]

Hi Jason,

Agreed. But the question was not directly linked to GPL and the status of 
the sources.

Let me summarize it again. One person creates a 3rd party viewer and 
distributes KDU and Vivox components packaged with it. Claiming the earlier 
here mentioned license terms would allow that.

However LL states that these components are not redistributable which seems 
to be contrary to what those quoted license passages say.

So I'd ask again if someone from LL who are licensee of KDU and Vivox could 
clarify if it is legally possible to package these components with a custom 
built viewer or not.

Boy


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Giglio" <gigstaggart at gmail.com>
To: "Boy Lane" <boy.lane at yahoo.com>
Cc: <sldev at lists.secondlife.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 8:50 AM
Subject: Re: [sldev] Vivox and Kakadu licensing issues.


> Boy Lane wrote:
>> Hi Gigs/Jason :)
>>
>> This doesn't really make sense as both are dynamically linked and not
>> required to run the client.
>
> Dynamically linking a closed source library isn't a pass for violating
> the GPL.
>
> Regarding that copyright notice you posted, Vivox itself uses a bunch of
> open source software... The Vivox client is in large part just BSD
> licensed code that has been closed.
>
> -Jason