[Opensim-dev] OpenSim - New Mumble/Murmur Module

[Mike Chase]

Honestly, these kinds of "special" clauses can cause all kinds of 
trouble.  It's effectively a new license which in some settings can 
trigger additional review, etc.

It sounds like excellent work and I sure respect your desire to 
encourage others to contribute changes back to the project.   That's the 
spirit of the original BSD License IMO.  And the foundation leaders 
would have to address whether they can accept the additional clause.  
I'd really encourage you however to contribute what you've done under 
the plain BSD license without your additional clause if you can stomach 
that.  It would greatly ease adoption IMO.

Mike

On 1/4/15 8:39 PM, Terry Ford wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Digital Worlds Group, LLC has recently contracted with a viewer 
> developer to help us to create a new Murmur/Mumble Voice solution for 
> OpenSim.
> We have most of this solution ready for use, but it does need some 
> further work.
>
> The solution requires viewer code, opensim code, and the murmur server 
> to be installed and used.
> We currently have a version of Firestorm with the required code.
> This viewer code will be on a publicly accessible git repository for 
> all to access and should be easy for all other viewers to grab and 
> include in those releases as well.
>
> This solution uses the latest available release of the Murmur Server.
>
> We plan to release the OpenSim code as Open Source as well, and 
> intended on using a BSD 3 clause license, but we want to ensure that 
> any and all future changes to this code are contributed back to the 
> community.
> We hope our code will be included into OpenSim core so that everyone 
> can benefit, but we want to know if anyone would take issue with an 
> included clause that specify all changes to the code be contributed 
> back to the core?
>
> Commercial or private use of the code will be permitted for any use, 
> without exclusions, but we want to make sure that everyone can benefit 
> from any changes others make as well, making this a true community 
> owned project.
>
> Anyone have any reservations about such a declaration in our license?
>
> Thanks.
> -- 
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> *Terry Ford*
> Digital Worlds Group <http://www.digitalworldsgroup.com>
>
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