[Opensim-dev] libpurple

[Toni Alatalo]

Stefan Andersson kirjoitti:
> Anybody knows what the licensing state being for someone to develop a 
> RegionModule 100% on the side (ie, not part of OpenSim) and then make 
> it avaliable 100% on the side?

IANAL, but just with simple plain logic I don't see any possible 
problems with this.
 
> If it's a cool thing, we might start up a siblling project that holds 
> an svn repo with GPL licenced plug-ins?

I think that's a good idea. There is a wealth of good GPL code out 
there, and often that license is not a problem, and sometimes exactly 
what is wanted. (I am not saying that always, and know and ack the 
reasons for BSD, but still)
 
> /Stefan

~Toni

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> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:03:56 -0500
> From: teravus at gmail.com
> To: opensim at signpostmarv.name; opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
> Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] libpurple
>
>
>     Lib Purple is an interesting topic, however the OpenSimulator
>     license is not compatible with the libpurple license(GPLv2)
>     unfortunately.
>      
>     Best Regards
>      
>     Teravus
>
>      
>     On 1/31/08, *SignpostMarv Martin* <opensim at signpostmarv.name
>     <mailto:opensim at signpostmarv.name>> wrote:
>
>         In today's Open Source office hours, the possibility of using
>         libpurple
>         as a communications gateway for SL was used.
>
>         It'd also have the side effect of being able to access SL with
>         more
>         accessible/lightweight clients, without needing to rely on libSL.
>
>         OpenSim already has IRC integration to allow two-way
>         communcation from
>         an IRC room, so it'd be nice to expand the supported protocols for
>         two-way region chat, and later allow non SL viewers to connect
>         to the
>         region/grid to collect/respond to offline messages
>
>
>         ~ Marv
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