Or anyone who has an issue with it can close their account and blatantly violate this policy.
This raises a question: has the TOS been updated to contain words to the effect of "you agree to be bound by the TPV"? If not, any developers may simply reject the policy On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 1:45 AM, Carlo Wood <ca...@alinoe.com> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 09:21:25AM -0700, Joe Linden wrote: >> The updated version of the Third Party Viewer Policy was posted here about a >> week ago: >> http://secondlife.com/corporate/tpv.php > > That says that if a developer changes the code and distributes it, > you reserve the right to pursue any and all legal and equitable remedies: > > 3 a. If you are a [...] Developer of Third-Party Viewers, you must not: > [...] design Third-Party Viewers to [...] > > If we believe you are or have been associated with activities that violate > this paragraph, either within or outside of Second Life, we may take any > enforcement action we deem appropriate [...] and pursuit of all legal and > equitable remedies. > > 7 d. You (Developer of Third-Party Viewers) assume all risks, expenses, and > defects of any Third-Party Viewers that you [use,] develop, or(!) > distribute. > > This is not compatible with the GPL. > Therefore, anyone who contributed to the GPL-ed code has a case > if they want to retract their contribution. > > -- > Carlo Wood <ca...@alinoe.com> > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges > -- “Lanie, I’m going to print more printers. Lots more printers. One for everyone. That’s worth going to jail for. That’s worth anything.” - Printcrime by Cory Doctrow Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
