Linden Labs could care less about what you put in your viewer. They are concerned about their product, which is Second Life. If YOUR viewer connects to THEIR network, heck yeah you can be liable for it...maybe not in the traditional sense, but you can agree you hold some responsibility for your actions. All that "legalese" is to prevent us, the developers, from shrugging our shoulders and saying "Oops, my bad." LL is covering their backs. Regardless of how you phrase it, code it, compile it...without the Second Life service. Your viewer is a brick.
I don't know anyone's tenure here in SL, and I won't ask. But, I remember "real" grid crashes. I remember before there was the grey goo fence and people taking down the grid with the OFFICIAL SecondLife viewer. With Third-Party viewers coming into play and Linden Labs releasing more and more bits of their service to the users, there has to be regulation and restrictions in order to protect the business. There is infinitely more chance for something to go wrong when you throw third-party viewers in the mix. Jonathan Irvin On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 06:04, Carlo Wood <ca...@alinoe.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 04:06:52PM +0000, Gareth Nelson wrote: > > LL as copyright holder (or joint holder) can change the GPL with extra > > restrictions as much as they like - so long as they make it clear. > > That would be EXTREMELY against the spirit of open source and the use > of GPL. It would also make it impossible for any TPV to use their code > anymore: TPV's added patches that are pure-GPL. LL does not have copyright > on those patches, so those remain GPL. Therefore it is not possible > to link code resulting from those patches with code that is GPL+TPVP, > which would be non-GPL because it has extra restrictions. > > Thus, if this is true (or if they'd do that in the future) then it is > EXTERMELY important to understand; because it DOES mean that all TPV's > have to stop using any additional code released by LL after 30 April 2010. > > -- > Carlo Wood <ca...@alinoe.com> > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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