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.
Sent from my iPad Air 2 > 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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Opensim-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://opensimulator.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev > > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://opensimulator.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev
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