Marine, >> That's not asking much, I think. I often wonder what the people who insist on me going GPL have in mind for the viewer. <<
It's actually you who puts the business of the inworld people at risk, because your license threatens the base on which the inworld businesses reside, i.e. redistrubtable viewer binaries. Everybody who provides a binary (and you do provide these) which takes in GPL and not providing full source under the same terms, is in violation of the copyright of those who have given *you* code you take in (i.e. Linden Lab). A simple DMCA or nastygram from the LL law department and the binaries would be offline. This is your own decision of course, risking your skin this with your own binary builds. You are also putting all other builders at risk, who make binaries with RLV support. Either they violate GPL (i.e. the copyright of LL and all other ingoing patches from other devs like me who provide their stuff under GPL, expecting that all derivative work is GPL too) by not being able to provide full source with same rights, or they violate yours. Besides, as far as I can tell, you are trying to make a license ex-post. It's somewhere on a blog far away from the actual source (I would have never found it myself if I had had any interest in the source), and you posted the license terms in May, while your patch (or older versions) have been out since 2008 (or even 2007) and everybody assumed it was GPL like every other patch out there. >> ... what I want is a consistent, monolithic system so that business owners do not have to wonder which flavor of the RLV their script is talking to. << It's not about your reasons or good intentions, it's that even with the best intentions you can't make up the rules as you go and even make others break license rules, when they actually help you broadening the base of *your* inworld business Nick _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
