I know the reason they won't accept patches from viewer devs, but it's a nonsensical reason. Merely viewing the viewer source code does not mean any code you write later on must be GPLed - something which 3 different attorneys confirmed.
This is something fairly basic in copyright law - it covers expression in fixed form, not ideas or abstract concepts. On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Glen Canaday <gcana...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > -- “Lanie, I’m going to print more printers. Lots more printers. One for everyone. That’s worth going to jail for. That’s worth anything.” - Printcrime by Cory Doctrow Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html _______________________________________________ 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
