[sldev] Vivox and Kakadu licensing issues.

Robin Cornelius robin.cornelius at gmail.com
Thu Apr 30 06:41:23 PDT 2009


On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Ambrosia <chaosstar at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I can't check right now, but does anybody have insight about how
> much/if Vivox actually gets linked dynamically? If it's merely the
> seperate SLvoice.exe that gets started with parameters that uses the
> dlls, it still can be used by a GPL/FLOSS viewer, as that'd pretty
> much fall under the 'plug-in' exception in the GPL.

Vivox is not linked in anyway to the viewer,it is a standalone
application that communicates to the viewer via a local network
socket. the vivox program itself opens the audio devices for sound and
microphone.

Robin


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