Hi Rob, I suspect the principles which allow the 6 month rule probably also allow an exemption to that rule (I would be surprised if they didn't.); but I would want to hear from legal advice before we could make any adjustments to the contributor agreement.
Regards, Adam > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:opensim-dev- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert A. Knop Jr. > Sent: Wednesday, 30 June 2010 8:46 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Opensim-dev] request change for contributor agreement > > It is my hope in the next 6-9 months to be in a position where I'll be > able to start making real contributions to OpenSim. There are some > things I have to work out -- I have to make sure that the IP policies > of the Unviersity where I'm going won't create problems. However, > there's another issue: > > You have not witnessed, seen or been party to the development of the > official Linden Lab Server Software. If you have been involved in the > official server development your contributions may affect the > licensing of the main codebase and we cannot accept the contributions > without a waiver from Linden Lab disclaiming any interest in your > contributions. > > Of course, I did see a bunch of that, way back when. The part that I > actively worked on myself was something that has no analog in OpenSim > (the "region conductor", which dealt with figuring out which servers > ran which regions). And, it's been more than a year -- will likely > have been more than 18 months by the time I'm in a position where I'll > be able to start making contributions. > > Six or eight months ago, I made some preliminary investigations into > getting this sort of waiver, asking somebody who was most likely to be > sympathetic to the need for it, and indications are that such a waiver > is probably very difficult to get. I honestly do not believe that > Linden would want to sign such a thing. However, I also don't think > that they should have to. It's been long enough since I had access to > that code that there's no practical way I can steal any of it at this > point. Would it be possible to have some sort of timeout (say, 18 > months) added to this clause in the contributor agreement? > > If that can't be done, then if I want to work on OpenSim I'm > effectively going to have to make my own fork of it. I know I'll want > to be working on things related to the Physics engine, and it would be > sad to me if I were not able to contribute what I did back to core > OpenSim. It would greatly undermine the value of what I hope to be > able to do in the future. > > -- > --Rob Knop > E-mail: [email protected] > Home Page: http://www.pobox.com/~rknop/ > Blog: http://www.sonic.net/~rknop/blog/ _______________________________________________ Opensim-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev
