That's good to hear, Soft, thanks. Please also make Legal aware of the impact of GPLv2's "NO WARRANTY" section to avoid yet another cause of GPL non-compliance through imposing conditions and liabilities on developers. I've listed it here<https://lists.secondlife.com/pipermail/opensource-dev/2010-February/000309.html>following on from Boy Lane's good points about liability.
Apparently a large amount of the confusion you mentioned is due to the TPV being addressed to developers and users *simultaneously*, as one Linden suggested today. Clearly this mixing doesn't work, and is the reason for multiple areas of GPL non-compliance in the TPV. I hope that a very clear distinction between developers and users is forthcoming in the next revision and FAQ, so that the GPL can continue to be used. Morgaine. =============================== On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Soft Linden <s...@lindenlab.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Morgaine > <morgaine.din...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Soft, > > > > Please add to your list of issues to pass to Legal, a highlighted copy of > > Clause 6 in the GPLv2 license, as well as a highlighted copy of the > section > > of the GPLv2 FAQ which addresses the relevant clause of the license with > a > > clear example of GPL non-compliance. [Search for "impose any further > > restrictions" to find it]. > > > > TPV section 1c is dramatically incompatible with GPLv2 clause 6 because > it > > conflicts with this part of clause 6 (an extremely important term in all > GPL > > licenses), in the specific case where the "recipient" of the code is the > > developer: > > > > "You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise > of > > the rights granted herein." > > Legal doesn't intend this to be a restriction on anything but use of > our service or eligibility for inclusion in the Viewer Directory. > Context is important here. Even the maintainers of GNU telnet won't > let someone use telnet to mess up the FSF's servers. > > Legal is aware that there has been confusion on this. There will be an > update soon, which makes the terms more clear. >
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