[Opensim-dev] Violating the GPL by looking (Re: Voice Module)

[Charles Krinke]

This is not a winner or looser situation at all. Each organization makes decisions as appropriate. Our decision is a BSD license. Once that decision has been made, other decisions follow logically, one after another.

We would welcome support and contributions of code as long as they fit within the structure set up.

Charles

----- Original Message ----
From: Justin Clark-Casey <jjustincc at googlemail.com>
To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
Cc: Second Life Developer Mailing List <sldev at lists.secondlife.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:26:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] Violating the GPL by looking (Re: Voice Module)

Ryan McDougall wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 08:04 +0100, Stefan Andersson wrote:
>   
>> Actually, LL is well aware of our situation, and we are not alone in
>> pressuring them for similar concessions. LL and OpenSim has always
>> been on good terms and various OpenSim people are in discussions with
>> various Linden people over various issues, including this.
>>     
>
> That effectively means that OpenSim and LL/Open Second Life are in a
> position of detente by mutual consent, where the communities are split
> in two and unable to interact.
>
> Sucks for whoever the loser turns out to be...
>   
We are able to interact (and already do) - it's just that we can't use 
the viewer source code for various miscellaneous reasons such as filling 
in missing protocol documentation from Linden (for instance, with the 
recent caps inventory changes, which I believe MW had to work out by 
inspecting the messages directly).

Thus, there's no need for there to be a loser - with open protocols 
(which is where I believe we're going) there are merely different 
implementations, even if one were to become dominant.

--
justincc
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