Sadly, I have to agree. The work should be submitted with the bsd and no 
additional restrictions. I appreciate you desires, but it is hard enough to get 
things added without complicating the license.

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> On Jan 5, 2015, at 9:31 AM, Mike Chase <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Honestly, these kinds of "special" clauses can cause all kinds of trouble.  
> It's effectively a new license which in some settings can trigger additional 
> review, etc. 
> 
> It sounds like excellent work and I sure respect your desire to encourage 
> others to contribute changes back to the project.   That's the spirit of the 
> original BSD License IMO.  And the foundation leaders would have to address 
> whether they can accept the additional clause.  I'd really encourage you 
> however to contribute what you've done under the plain BSD license without 
> your additional clause if you can stomach that.  It would greatly ease 
> adoption IMO.
> 
> Mike
> 
>> On 1/4/15 8:39 PM, Terry Ford wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> Digital Worlds Group, LLC has recently contracted with a viewer developer to 
>> help us to create a new Murmur/Mumble Voice solution for OpenSim.
>> We have most of this solution ready for use, but it does need some further 
>> work.
>> 
>> The solution requires viewer code, opensim code, and the murmur server to be 
>> installed and used.
>> We currently have a version of Firestorm with the required code.
>> This viewer code will be on a publicly accessible git repository for all to 
>> access and should be easy for all other viewers to grab and include in those 
>> releases as well.
>> 
>> This solution uses the latest available release of the Murmur Server.
>> 
>> We plan to release the OpenSim code as Open Source as well, and intended on 
>> using a BSD 3 clause license, but we want to ensure that any and all future 
>> changes to this code are contributed back to the community.
>> We hope our code will be included into OpenSim core so that everyone can 
>> benefit, but we want to know if anyone would take issue with an included 
>> clause that specify all changes to the code be contributed back to the core?
>> 
>> Commercial or private use of the code will be permitted for any use, without 
>> exclusions, but we want to make sure that everyone can benefit from any 
>> changes others make as well, making this a true community owned project.
>> 
>> Anyone have any reservations about such a declaration in our license?
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> -- 
>> Terry Ford
>> Digital Worlds Group
>> 
>> 
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