None of those projects have an agreement that allows proprietary versions On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 4:12 AM, Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence) <o...@lindenlab.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Henri Beauchamp <sl...@free.fr> wrote: > > SL is the ONLY so-called (but actually still not, obviously: a Canada-Dry > LGPL, perhaps ?) LGPL Open Source project requiring a License agreement > from its contributors !!! This makes strictly no sense and is a clear > impairement. > > Axiom, OpenOffice, NetBeans, Joomla!, Alfresco, ... > > > and all projects under the Apache Foundation. > > http://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas > > and the Perl Foundation > > http://www.perlfoundation.org/contributor_license_agreement > > and the Python Foundation > > http://www.python.org/psf/contrib/contrib-form-python/ > > none of which are in any way commercial, and all of whom embody the ideals > to which other open source projects aspire. > > I know that some of you won't sign an agreement, and that you have reasons > you think are good. I accept that whether I agree with those reasons or > not, while deeply regreting not being able to share in your work. > > If any of you are unsure what the implications of the agreement are, I am > happy to provide what assistance I can if you contact me _off_ of the list > (but I am not a lawyer, and crucially I am not _your_ lawyer). > > There may come a time when Linden Lab will revisit the requirement for or > the terms of the CA. If I'm still here, I'll let the community know when > that is happening. > > For the time being, changing the CA is not on the table - we've got other > things to spend our time and energy on at the moment - like making Second > Life Fast, Easy, and Fun. > > If you feel the need to continue to rail against the CA, please take it > somewhere else and leave this list to people who are trying to do the things > that are possible now. > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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