[sldev] Vivox and Kakadu licensing issues.

Ambrosia chaosstar at gmail.com
Thu Apr 30 02:37:48 PDT 2009


> Be a little careful of quicktime, on Macs its part of the operating
> system/standard distribution so linking against is fine under the GPL,
> on windows its certainly not part of the operating system so your in
> danger of GPL issues here right away on on mac platforms.

I just realized that we've been forgetting the FLOSS exception that LL
added to the viewer license. So yes, a 3rd party viewer can have
quicktime support, as well as FMOD. Duh. Big duh.

The original question of the discussion wasn't quite referring to
making a pure-GPL-compatible viewer. So basically this boils down to
the same old spiel...can distribute the viewer, can not package it
with llKDU, the vivox components, fonts. Am I correct in that analysis
of it all?


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