[Opensim-users] OpenSim Mesh Testing, LOD and MySQL max_allowed_packet

[Justin Clark-Casey]

On 21/07/11 14:36, Kay McLennan wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Ai Austin <ai.ai.austin at gmail.com <mailto:ai.ai.austin at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I appreciate this thread might be better reported under LL/Second Life viewer forums and JIRA.
>
> I have a question related to the introduction of mesh in SL and OS, does SL and OS still work jointly together on
> projects like the introduction of mesh?  That is, I have long wondered whether the sharing of the platform
> programming code (at the inception of the OS) was a one time or continuing collaboration?
> --Kay McLennan

Hi Kay.  There was never any platform code shared - OpenSim was built from scratch (with the help of libraries such as 
libomv) without any code from Linden Lab.

There was some collaboration around the old OGP (which enabled the earlier teleports from SL to OpenSim) but this was 
done through a common protocol rather than any direct code sharing.

That's not to say there's no collaboration at all.  SL have made some code libraries available through the BSD instead 
of GPL/LGPL, for instance.  They do make some protocol documentation available.  And I hear that they have been 
receptive to putting config parameters in the viewer to enable connection to third party grids.  But for the most part, 
LL implement a facility in the viewer (e.g. mesh) and OpenSim along with other members of the open-source vw/ve 
community, implement what the viewer needs, sometimes by trial and error.

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