On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:40:54 +0800 "Boy Lane" <boy.l...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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 disagree, you can develop your viewer without violate any license, gpol neither tpv, nobody put limit to your development roadmap rules are for customers of LL, they can use all viewer they want, but only if TPV compliant GPL license of viewer and TPV are two parallel universe totally unbinded each other you developer are subject only to GPL license.... nail (bsd) and gpl licenses are totally free from TPV... all LL are doing is same already done by a lot of other company than release their software under GPL, but have restriction to use server side services/software (netscape, vmware, novel, etc.etc.) why their opensource developers don't do so much noise and understand in short time all about the "new" scenario? :) _______________________________________________ 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
