On Tue, 3 Feb 2015 08:53:12 -0800, Harold Brown wrote: > The simple fact of the matter is. If you do not sign a code > contribution agreement LL can NOT use your code.
The code is (L)GPL. Anyone can reuse it and even if it had been my intention (and it never was and never will), I can't oppose to have my code reused (by anyone !) after I got it (L)GPLed. That's the whole point of the (L)GPL !!! As for an additional "safety measure" (lawyers' paranoia, obviously) such as a License agreement, I have always been ready to sign one if, and only if, I do not have to disclose my snail-mail address and phone number, both being beyond the purpose and requirements of a license agreement and being private data I won't give up for such a purpose (like the French Law allows and even encourages me). Oz knows that already. Anyway, it was not even question to reuse my code in the SUN-38 issue, for there was no code of mine (it's mostly server side stuff, anyway). It was just question of a suitable protocol definition so to address the actual issue behind SUN-38 (the avatar bounding box issue, even if a *side-effect* of being able to change the bounding box in the Z axis also allows to adjust the animations height and thus to address as well the animations issues). There has been at least one example in the past of a *great* and *benefical* discussion about a protocol definition (for Animation Overiders), you can see the archive for the corresponding thread here: https://lists.secondlife.com/pipermail/opensource-dev/2012-April/008850.html and my main contribution to it here: https://lists.secondlife.com/pipermail/opensource-dev/2012-April/008850.html a contribution which apparently was the base for the final protocol that LL implemented (which was finally 100% server-side (via scripts) and did indeed address all the points I raised), and a contribution for which I was thanked by Oz in an email. I had the hope the SUN-38 issue could have been dealt with with the same cleverness and efficiency... Failed ! It's beyond my comprehension that LL can't seem to be able to make use of the programming power and competences brought to them *for free* by OpenSource developers, and instead prefer to take the most arrogant stance and discourage them. What an incredible waste of resources !!! Henri. _______________________________________________ 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
