Hmm... something came up on SLU...
on the bottom of the pile is the GPL, because every piece of source code for the viewer says "licensed under GPL v2". on top of that is the TPV, because linden labs think they can say so. ...regarding "connecting to Second Life" they actually can. ...regarding imposing liabilities on developers they can NOT, but they refuse to see that, but that is besides the point anyways. BUT: there is nothing in the TPV that forbids you to put another "clickwrap" license around your third party viewer, that the user has to explicitely accept, which puts you back in the GPLed "no liabilities" state. and legal practice in the last years has been that "clickwrap" licenses (accept at installation/first start) have precedence over anything "shrinkwrapped" (on websites or boxes) ... and in case LL changes the TPV to say that you cannot add additional licensing terms, that would be in clear violation of the GPL v2 unless they completely relicense the whole source which they cannot do retroactively, and it would also be proof that anybody who had been claiming that the TPV doesn't "mean" that devs take all responsibility was simply lying through his teeth. _______________________________________________ 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
