[Opensim-dev] Leaving Project

[Kyle Hamilton]

I've already explained the futility of the concept of "trade secret"
protection when LL already released the viewer code, and the
specifications for connecting to a server -- they told the secret,
themselves, and to be a trade secret first something must be secret.
The only thing they can claim is copyright protection, and since
there's no means of automatedly transforming C++ code into C# code
there's no transformation without reinterpretation and recreation,
thus preventing any copyright claim from succeeding.  (I am not a
lawyer, but I've read Eben Moglen's essays.  You know, the general
counsel for the FSF?)

-Kyle H

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Fly Man <fly.man.opensim at gmail.com> wrote:
> Adam,
>
> You hit the nail right on his head with this passage:
>
> The big problem here is there’s a very real lack of viewer developers in
> this community – there is some overlap between server & network engineers
> (like the OS community) and 3D Viewer Developers here, but not much. If we
> do have 3D devs in the community who haven’t done anything and feel like
> contributing – you really should be talking to some of the ‘next gen viewer’
>  projects and seeing if we can get something awesome done faster.
>
> And maybe someone should explain WHY people won't burn their hands on the
> viewer
>
> Main reason: There's a clausule on the Website and internally about "Look at
> viewer code, and there's 6 months no working on OpenSim"
>
> So any person that would like to keep working on OpenSim doesn't look at
> viewer code, and vice versa.
>
> That's about the main reason that some viewer developers won't co-operate
> with OpenSim and the other way, developers from OpenSim can't help viewer
> developers
>
> But that's just my 2 cents about that passage.
>
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