<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This is not a winner or looser situation at all. Each organization makes decisions as appropriate. Our decision is a BSD license. Once that decision has been made, other decisions follow logically, one after another.<br><br>We would welcome support and contributions of code as long as they fit within the structure set up.<br><br>Charles<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Justin Clark-Casey <jjustincc@googlemail.com><br>To: opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de<br>Cc: Second Life Developer Mailing List <sldev@lists.secondlife.com><br>Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:26:20 AM<br>Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] Violating the GPL by looking (Re: Voice
Module)<br><br>
Ryan
McDougall
wrote:<br>>
On
Tue,
2008-03-18
at
08:04
+0100,
Stefan
Andersson
wrote:<br>>
<br>>>
Actually,
LL
is
well
aware
of
our
situation,
and
we
are
not
alone
in<br>>>
pressuring
them
for
similar
concessions.
LL
and
OpenSim
has
always<br>>>
been
on
good
terms
and
various
OpenSim
people
are
in
discussions
with<br>>>
various
Linden
people
over
various
issues,
including
this.<br>>>
<br>><br>>
That
effectively
means
that
OpenSim
and
LL/Open
Second
Life
are
in
a<br>>
position
of
detente
by
mutual
consent,
where
the
communities
are
split<br>>
in
two
and
unable
to
interact.<br>><br>>
Sucks
for
whoever
the
loser
turns
out
to
be...<br>>
<br>We
are
able
to
interact
(and
already
do)
-
it's
just
that
we
can't
use <br>the
viewer
source
code
for
various
miscellaneous
reasons
such
as
filling <br>in
missing
protocol
documentation
from
Linden
(for
instance,
with
the <br>recent
caps
inventory
changes,
which
I
believe
MW
had
to
work
out
by <br>inspecting
the
messages
directly).<br><br>Thus,
there's
no
need
for
there
to
be
a
loser
-
with
open
protocols <br>(which
is
where
I
believe
we're
going)
there
are
merely
different <br>implementations,
even
if
one
were
to
become
dominant.<br><br>--<br>justincc<br>_______________________________________________<br>Opensim-dev
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