Greetings! This hasn't let go of me all day, and I hope to find some enlightenment here about the issue.
As often repeated, and stated on the wiki (by a third party), the lib Kakadu and the Vivox components of the SL viewer can not be freely distributed in 3rd party clients. Now, an issue with a 3rd party client has come up where this is being questioned I investigated some, and interestingly enough I can not find any licensing information specific to the Vivox components. The license file lists all the opensource libraries (including GPLd ones) that are used in the vivox SDK and tech, but I cannot find any info about the vivoxsdk.dll itself of the slvoice.exe licensing at all. Going purely by the licenses listed in the .txt file that comes with the viewer (and the vivox library download in the install.xml), the components are distributable..but as I said. It's a very confusing setup of licenses mostly referring to 3rd party tech used. Similiarly, somebody claims that according to the license at http://www.kakadusoftware.com/Downloads.html ('You are free to play around with these executables and even to re-distribute them, so long as such use or re-distribution is accompanied this copyright notice and is not for commercial gain.') the full kakadu library included in the download is free for distribution in non-commercial software, yet in my opinion this only applies to the actual exe files in the package. Does anybody have any insight into this? Maybe a Linden dev, by chance? It's causing alot of controversity about the client in question. _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
