[Opensim-dev] Violating the GPL by looking

[Ryan McDougall]

That doesn't sound right. Do you have a link to where you've gotten your information from?

It sounds like you're saying that so long as you keep them on separate SVNs you've fully provided for all the clauses in the GPL, and that you're able to run a GPL binary with a BSD one.

That appears to be in contradiction of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL_linking_exception

The only way you can use GPL with non-GPL-compat is if it runs in an external process, a la SLVoice.

Am I wrong?

Cheers,

----- "Stefan Andersson" <stefan at tribalmedia.se> wrote:
Yes,

the problem isn't using OpenSim and GPL:ed code together, the problem is introducing GPL:ed code in a BSD project; we do have the module system, which would let anyone, tainted or not, write GPL:ed code that would play very well with the core.

We would just not place that code and its dependencies in our BSD svn - you'd have to make it available say, on your own web site.

Also, as an alternative, we have been discussing setting up another repo (actually, another site completely) that holds non-core modules and extensions. That repo can very well be under mixed licenses.

/Stefan

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