They won't accept viewer developers because the viewer is GPL and they want to be absolutely sure that only BSD code gets in. If the viewer code weren't virally licensed (as the GPL is), they'd probably be more than happy to accept viewer-developer patches. Geeked as all get-out, I'd imagine. It's the same reason why they will not accept patches from anyone who is known to have seen the LL server code. They can't be sure there's no LL-proprietary licensing stuff going on. See this: http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Contributions_Policy
... all of which I can completely understand. It's a good thing I haven't had time to view the code itself so I'm still open to choose a project. Though I *HAVE* decided that I will not work on a TPV... it's Snowglobe if it's going to be anything viewer related. I'm actually rather surprised no one's said anything about the merges of GPL code into viewer-internal. That bugged me more than the TPV stuff. I dunno about mono, though. I'm not too keen on learning yet another language. My brain's kinda full as it is and I would LOVE to branch the viewer into UI, rendering, network, and DB modules so that any one module can be upgraded at any time without any significant impact on any other. --GC On 04/02/2010 11:49 AM, Gareth Nelson wrote: > It's a lot of work to maintain, trust me - anyway, it'd be better to > convince the opensim team to allow viewer developers in. > > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Argent Stonecutter > <secret.arg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Sounds like an "impure opensim" fork is needed. >> >> On 2010-04-02, at 08:19, Gareth Nelson wrote: >> >> >>> If these people also work on the viewer, they're banned from >>> contributing patches to opensim >>> >>> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Carlo Wood<ca...@alinoe.com> wrote: >>> >>>> What is the reason that those fixes aren't incorporated in "pure" >>>> opensim? >>>> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ 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
