[Opensim-dev] LL Viewer code license change

Dahlia Trimble dahliatrimble at gmail.com
Tue Aug 17 10:52:56 UTC 2010


On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 2:36 AM, Ai Austin <ai.ai.austin at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>


"for a lot of the top level parts"? Not the entire code base? I'm curious
which parts are now LGPL and which are not, and if not, what license they
are under?
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