[sldev] Vivox and Kakadu licensing issues.

[Tateru Nino]

Also: distribution with Quicktime support, FMOD, the art assets, the 
fonts. (I believe I know the correct answer to the latter two - but we 
may as well get it all clarified in one go, right?)

Have we missed any pieces?

Boy Lane wrote:
> 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
>>      
>
>
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