On 01/07/10 07:40, Frisby, Adam wrote:
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.
+1. Hopefully we can get the ball rolling internally on this topic soon.
Regards,
Adam
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[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.
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