Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy

2010-02-23 Thread Gareth Nelson
I have a strong urge to produce a viewer which violates this policy, relying solely on the rights granted by the existing GPL. I will never use this viewer myself to login to SL, and thus reject any of these terms. Any developers who object to this policy should follow suit. A few questions: If I

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy

2010-02-23 Thread Marine Kelley
You gotta be kiddin me !! I call that a stab in the back. You guys disgust me. Your Third-Party Viewer name must not be confusingly similar to or use any part of a Linden Lab trademark, including “Second,” “Life,” “SL,” or “Linden.” For example: You must not have a Third-Party Viewer name t

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy

2010-02-23 Thread Tigro Spottystripes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 is the policy just a set of requisites for a client to be included in the list LL will have on their site or to be allowed to connect to Agni at all? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - htt

[opensource-dev] Snowglobe 2 update

2010-02-23 Thread Philippe (Merov) Bossut
Hi, So, Snowglobe 2 is out there and ready to build/hack. Well, almost. What we have today is basically the Viewer 2.0 beta source code + all the Snowglobe branding on top of it but lots of Snowglobe specific features are still missing. Before I go into the details of what's left to be done (and w

Re: [opensource-dev] So what happens if....

2010-02-23 Thread Rob Nelson
>From my reading, you get banned in all four cases, since you automatically take responsibility for the users' activities (Section 7 3PVP). On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 07:08 +0200, Imaze Rhiano wrote: > First I want to thank LL from efforts to create ethical guidelines for > respectable viewers. Unfort

[opensource-dev] So what happens if....

2010-02-23 Thread Imaze Rhiano
First I want to thank LL from efforts to create ethical guidelines for respectable viewers. Unfortunately I don't think that these rules are going to work in reality where we are living.(And as others have already pointed out - there might be incompatible with GPL and other licenses.) Let's ima

Re: [opensource-dev] Snowglobe 2 and Open Source

2010-02-23 Thread Philippe (Merov) Bossut
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Trilo Byte wrote: > Awesome to see something posted so quickly (though huge shame that testing > resources like this group and BSI weren't utilized). > > Can't help but notice we've lost some functionality from Snowglobe 1.3 > namely the drop down to choose th

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy

2010-02-23 Thread Vex Streeter
On 2/23/2010 6:05 PM, Lawson English wrote: Vex Streeter wrote: Soft Linden wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Mike Dickson wrote: On 02/23/2010 02:16 PM, Gigs wrote: http://secondlife.com/corporate/tpv.php You all realize this is massively incompatible with the GPL, right? Not at al

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy

2010-02-23 Thread Morgaine
Gigs is totally right that http://secondlife.com/corporate/tpv.php is completely incompatible with the GPL. Specifically, TPV clause 1c is incompatible with GPLv2 clause 6. GPLv2 has a FAQ that elaborates on this point, highlighting from clause 6 that: - "*You may not impose any further rest

[opensource-dev] Flames about CDS (was: Re: Third party viewer policy)

2010-02-23 Thread Thomas Shikami
malachi schrieb: > sorry thomas but the idea that a person can be detected by skills system > while running LL's client on a name that is new today and never been > logged in on any other client... shows that the information used to > detect if a person has 'ever' used a bad client is coming fro

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy

2010-02-23 Thread malachi
sorry thomas but the idea that a person can be detected by skills system while running LL's client on a name that is new today and never been logged in on any other client... shows that the information used to detect if a person has 'ever' used a bad client is coming from the persons computer.

Re: [opensource-dev] Snowglobe 2 and Open Source

2010-02-23 Thread Trilo Byte
Awesome to see something posted so quickly (though huge shame that testing resources like this group and BSI weren't utilized). Can't help but notice we've lost some functionality from Snowglobe 1.3 namely the drop down to choose the user name on login, and panning around the mini-map. Wha

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy

2010-02-23 Thread Thomas Shikami
malachi schrieb: > im curious as to how this will apply to clients and bots that seem to > have the ability to not only gather agents ip addresses but by obtaining > this information raid those agents computers searching for data... > particularly the new copybot detection system by an unmention

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy

2010-02-23 Thread malachi
im curious as to how this will apply to clients and bots that seem to have the ability to not only gather agents ip addresses but by obtaining this information raid those agents computers searching for data... particularly the new copybot detection system by an unmentioned developer. The fact t

Re: [opensource-dev] question on SL/SG 2.0 avatar backend

2010-02-23 Thread Nyx Linden
I believe you're referring to avatar_lad.xml, which is stored in the character subdirectory of your client's install directory. If you have any specific questions on it, please let me know! -Nyx Robert Martin wrote: > ive been trying to get somebody to code an editor for SL clothing and > one

[opensource-dev] question on SL/SG 2.0 avatar backend

2010-02-23 Thread Robert Martin
ive been trying to get somebody to code an editor for SL clothing and one of the things ive found is a file deep somewhere in the tree that has the parameters of the avatar in a nice neat list. The question is since i seem to have dumped the original could somebody remind me where this file is in t

[opensource-dev] Smoke test plans for viewer 2 available?

2010-02-23 Thread Zai Lynch
Hi here! I was pondering: Could existing test plans for viewer 2 be published in the public wiki? It would certainly be cool to have these, since localization teams are now asked to provide bug reports for localized versions. Having some kind of step by step plan to cover all viewer parts would ce

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy

2010-02-23 Thread Rob Nelson
Thanks LL, you killed my viewer that I have developed alone for two years and was probably a week away from releasing, due to one stupid copyright enfarcement rule: No "Life" in the name. Do you realize how much documentation, sourcecode, licensing, subdomains, bug trackers, wiki, images, logos, g

[opensource-dev] Trying to compile the viewer, what does this mean?

2010-02-23 Thread james ross
I am still trying to compile the viewer by trying every tutorial I can find. I pasted the link to the wiki site below in which I am having issues. I am currently in the proccess of downloading a copy of .NET 2003 from the MSDNA so that I can open the Apache files without them corrupting on me.

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy

2010-02-23 Thread Lawson English
Latif Khalifa wrote: > It also means that now I need to hire a lawyer in order to continue to > make and distribute my text viewer (Radegast), with special features > aimed at people with disabilities. The terms mandate that I need to > have an official privacy policy published, and I also need to

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy

2010-02-23 Thread Latif Khalifa
It also means that now I need to hire a lawyer in order to continue to make and distribute my text viewer (Radegast), with special features aimed at people with disabilities. The terms mandate that I need to have an official privacy policy published, and I also need to to show SL ToS to users (and

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy

2010-02-23 Thread Domino Marama
> We may ask you to make changes > to your Third-Party Viewer if it disables certain of our services, or > if we believe it is inconsistent with the principle of shared > experience or otherwise negatively affects the Second Life user > experience. If we do, you agree to make the changes we request

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy

2010-02-23 Thread Vector Hastings
I love the text only viewers. Would hate to see them disappear. How about SLIM? I realize that can probably be categorized as a separate service that's not a "viewer," but you could also see it as a "chat only" viewer. Could a third-party text-only viewer be considered compliant with 1h if it m

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy

2010-02-23 Thread Lawson English
Vex Streeter wrote: > Soft Linden wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Mike Dickson wrote: >> >>> On 02/23/2010 02:16 PM, Gigs wrote: >>> http://secondlife.com/corporate/tpv.php You all realize this is massively incompatible with the GPL, right? >>> No

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy

2010-02-23 Thread Vex Streeter
Soft Linden wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Mike Dickson wrote: On 02/23/2010 02:16 PM, Gigs wrote: http://secondlife.com/corporate/tpv.php You all realize this is massively incompatible with the GPL, right? Not at all.  They're not restri

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy

2010-02-23 Thread Gigs
Robin Cornelius wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Soft Linden wrote: >> Mike's correct. >> >> If you see any wording that's ambiguous about that, let us know. > > > Well there are many other issues another couple are :- > There are many many other issues. * It gives Linden Lab the abi

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy

2010-02-23 Thread C.J. Adams-Collier
The Debian (Sun) Java runtime package has such an agreement requirement or did at one point. On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 20:37 +, Robin Cornelius wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Soft Linden wrote: > > Mike's correct. > > > > If you see any wording that's ambiguous about that, let us know

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy

2010-02-23 Thread C.J. Adams-Collier
Are you sure? I'd think that denying connection to their services would not be limited in any way by the GPL. But IANAL. On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 15:16 -0500, Gigs wrote: > http://secondlife.com/corporate/tpv.php > > You all realize this is massively incompatible with the GPL, right? > > >

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy

2010-02-23 Thread Robin Cornelius
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Soft Linden wrote: > Mike's correct. > > If you see any wording that's ambiguous about that, let us know. Well there are many other issues another couple are :- 1h "Central to Second Life is the principle of shared experience. The services we provide through our

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy

2010-02-23 Thread Ambroff Linden
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Robin Cornelius wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Soft Linden wrote: > > Mike's correct. > > > > If you see any wording that's ambiguous about that, let us know. > > ___ > > > Well you seem to have spelled the

Re: [opensource-dev] Snowglobe 2 and Open Source

2010-02-23 Thread Mike Monkowski
Howard Look wrote: > from here. But I want to reiterate: *We are committed to open source and > to supporting the open development community.* We embrace the notion > that this community develops viewers that serve the needs of a wide > range of Residents while we pursue a broader consumer marke

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy

2010-02-23 Thread Soft Linden
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Robin Cornelius wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Soft Linden wrote: >> Mike's correct. >> >> If you see any wording that's ambiguous about that, let us know. >> ___ > > > Well you seem to have spelled the end of

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy

2010-02-23 Thread Brent Tubbs
For a while I've been batting around the idea of creating an SVN-bot to enable much-improved version control for inworld scripts; a must-have when you're developing as part of a team. The same-creator policy on content export would seem to prohibit that though. I realize that you probably don't w

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy

2010-02-23 Thread Gigs
Soft Linden wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Mike Dickson wrote: >> On 02/23/2010 02:16 PM, Gigs wrote: >>> http://secondlife.com/corporate/tpv.php >>> >>> You all realize this is massively incompatible with the GPL, right? >>> >> Not at all. They're not restricting access to the code. T

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy

2010-02-23 Thread Robin Cornelius
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Soft Linden wrote: > Mike's correct. > > If you see any wording that's ambiguous about that, let us know. > ___ Well you seem to have spelled the end of my debian/ubuntu project, I can not meet the tems of the third par

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy

2010-02-23 Thread Soft Linden
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Mike Dickson wrote: > > On 02/23/2010 02:16 PM, Gigs wrote: > > http://secondlife.com/corporate/tpv.php > > > > You all realize this is massively incompatible with the GPL, right? > > > Not at all.  They're not restricting access to the code. They're > restricting

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy

2010-02-23 Thread Mike Dickson
On 02/23/2010 02:16 PM, Gigs wrote: > http://secondlife.com/corporate/tpv.php > > You all realize this is massively incompatible with the GPL, right? > > > ___ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Open

[opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy

2010-02-23 Thread Gigs
http://secondlife.com/corporate/tpv.php You all realize this is massively incompatible with the GPL, right? ___ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before postin

[opensource-dev] Snowglobe 2 and Open Source

2010-02-23 Thread Howard Look
Hi Open Source devs, As you probably saw, we just launched Viewer 2 to public Beta. We've been dark for a long time, but it is for good reason: We needed to do a total overhaul of our user experience and that's not something best done by a large group. Honestly, there are times when we had an a

Re: [opensource-dev] Consensus? was: Client-side scripting in Snowglobe

2010-02-23 Thread Morgaine
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Carlo Wood wrote: > There is no need for A != B. > > Why not define the words A and B such that A includes B? B \in A > > Then you can still talk about the subject, since there is still a C = A > \not B, > such that the intersection of B and C is empty. > For

Re: [opensource-dev] Consensus? was: Client-side scripting in Snowglobe

2010-02-23 Thread Dzonatas Sol
Marine Kelley wrote: > Exactly my thinking too, the problem us not clear whether the players > are cooperative or in competition. It totally changes the result. > > But I guess that the real goal of this challenge is to call you > "stupid" and to gauge your reaction. If you yell or punch the