[Opensim-dev] LL Viewer code license change

[Ai Austin]

From: Justin Clark-Casey <jjustincc at googlemail.com>
>As regards to OpenSim contributions, I doubt that the viewer license 
>change to LGPL will make any difference.  LGPL just
>makes it possible to link non-GPL code to the viewer code.  The viewer co
de itself is still virally licensed.

Justin, where did you get this information?  Its not the way it was 
presented at SLCC (I watched the entire announcement and read the 
postings afterwards by LL).  So, its not the way I read it, but we 
need to check.  They even amended the licence from GPL to LGPL for a 
lot of the top level parts of the viewer source code as I examined 
some of the key commitdiffs.

LGPL or an equivalent is very important.  Its the way we have 
licensed our own open source contributions for many years since we 
genuinely want the stuff we create to be used very widely without 
restrictions.  We have had to avoid GPL elements and contributions in 
our key systems for all those reasons developers will be familiar with.