Thanks Tayra. You said it in other words but that is exactly what I wrote. I can not make a 3rd party viewer that is not violating either TPV or GPL and the same time can *legally* connect to the SecondLife grid..
That leaves 2 options: 1) Develop a GPL viewer based in LL's sources that can not follow TPV as per applicable licensing and can not therefore not connect to SL at all; or 2) Develop an non-GPL viewer independent from LL's sources that follows TPV's restrictions and is therefore allowed to connect to SL Simple as that. As I wrote that would mean the end of *ALL* current 3rd party SL viewers other than Naali or from scratched progammed text clients. Boy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tayra Dagostino" <tayra.dagost...@gmail.com> To: "Boy Lane" <boy.l...@yahoo.com> Cc: "Joe Linden" <j...@lindenlab.com>; <opensource-dev@lists.secondlife.com> Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2010 10:15 PM Subject: Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy: commencement date > On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:01:02 +0800 > "Boy Lane" <boy.l...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> But worse than this, the updated TPV policy does not allow *anyone* >> to comply with that policy.The policy is legally and technically >> flawed. It's impossible to comply and not violate either LL's policy >> itself or licensing terms (GPL). As a developer I can also not be >> compliant as LL forces me to carry a legal burden LL themselves >> disclaimed, and which the GPL explicitly excludes as "no warranty" >> and "limited liability". You can read that in every source code file. >> Just a couple of paragraphs that are in direct conflict with each >> other: > > GPL is about source of viewer, and is accomplished > > TPV is a part of term of use for external developer, you can use source > in GPL way without any restriction, but if you want connect your viewer > to LL grid (LL isn't a software, is a real company) there are some > rules, nobody disallow you to modify, patch or distribute a > fork/modified viewer in GPL license. > > TPV is a restriction for LL grid and services, not about sources _______________________________________________ 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
