On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Neil Canham <[email protected]> wrote: > Would anyone be able to tell me about the warning for any one person not to > work on both the OpenSim source and a viewer such as Hippo? I understand > that there are licensing differences (BSD vs GPL respectively) and that > direct inclusion of GPL code in a BSD project breaks the GPL license. > Surely you could guard against such direct inclusion? Does this extend to > region modules and mini-region modules? I'm in the position of wanting to > make changes to the viewer and also to write MRMs or other modules. > It gets a bit "interesting" but in general because of the way that the GPL is written all code in a GPL project must be GPL (or becomes GPL). Now you can have other licensed "stuff" with a GPL project (game engine licensed GPL but game assets COMMERCIAL) but when a compile is done anything that is part of or links into GPL code must be GPL. LGPL does allow linking but it gets a bit twisty.
So the simple thing is working on OS and a viewer is possible but not recommended could you maybe pick one set and then give the idea for the other set to somebody else?? -- Robert L Martin _______________________________________________ Opensim-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev
