[Opensim-users] Cry Havok:On new World Notes has me worried.

[Sarge Misfit]

OpenSim needs its own viewer, one that is not reliant on nor restricted in
any way by SL/LL.

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Justin Clark-Casey <
jjustincc at googlemail.com> wrote:

> I think things depend on how the feature is integrated into the viewer and
> how the Havok sublicense clause
>
> “Sublicensee must require the Third Party Viewer to connect only to
> servers owned or operated by the Company [Linden Lab].”
>
> is interpreted.
>
> If LL allow a TPV to develop both an LL-only Havok version and an
> OpenSim/other non-Havok version then I don't think it's too bad.  This
> requires that the new code be modular and not absolutely core to the viewer
> experience in some way.  At the moment I believe it only touches optional
> pathfinding but this could change over time.
>
> If either of these conditions is false then I think TPV developers are
> forced to make a choice - use Havok and develop for LL only or abandon LL
> and develop only for OpenSimulator and similar platforms.
>
> And to be honest, I'm not sure how the Havok sublicense could be enforced.
>  Once a Havok binary is out in the wild it doesn't matter who you whack -
> the code isn't going to disappear.  Anybody could glue a viewer together
> with the Havok binary and use it how they like, or publish a patchset which
> moves any LL-only restrictions from an existing open-source viewer.
>
> Then again, Havok do have a free (Intel sponsored) physics download
> (albeit win32 only) which can even be used in commercial games with a value
> of 10 USD or less.  I hear that this doesn't contain pathfinding
> functionality (?) but this doesn't seem a million miles away from allowing
> a similar package to be used in open-source software
>
>
> On 15/04/12 14:27, InuYasha Meiji wrote:
>
>> I just noticed this article, and wanted to know what is really means to
>> those of us who want to see opensim keep going
>> and hope for newer updated and continued progress on new clients that
>> support opensim.
>>
>>
>> Cry Havok: New Linden Rules May Forbid 3rd Party Viewer
>> Development for Use on Non-Lab Servers (i.e. OpenSim)
>>
>> http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2012/**04/cry-havok-new-linden-**
>> guidelines-third-party-**developers.html#comments<http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2012/04/cry-havok-new-linden-guidelines-third-party-developers.html#comments>
>>
>> Is this a show stopper??
>>
>> InuYasha
>>
>>
>>
>
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