Re: [opensource-dev] Can you legally agree to incomprehensible conditions?

2010-04-02 Thread Ryan McDougall
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Kent Quirk (Q Linden) wrote: > 1) The first line of my comment is that I don't speak for Linden legal. Right. > 2) What I said was that if you want to understand legalese, you should talk > to a lawyer. That's it. Seriously, how many developers can realisticall

Re: [opensource-dev] new TOS - TPV "legally" binding. :/

2010-04-01 Thread Ryan McDougall
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Lawson English wrote: > Gareth Nelson wrote: >> You're always welcome to not accept the TOS and thus lose all >> your inworld assets >> >> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Lawson English wrote: >> >>> Lance Corrimal wrote: >>> just had a little popup

Re: [opensource-dev] A note on preserving "NO WARRANTY" for SL TPV developers

2010-03-31 Thread Ryan McDougall
You're out of your mind if you recommend people spend their spare time working on something under no more protection than "good faith". LL has lawyered themselves up nicely; who's legal advice are you taking? SCO was unable to destroy linux because Novell got their rights written down quite clearl

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy: commencement date

2010-03-24 Thread Ryan McDougall
e bugs and vulnerabilities *made by LL*. Guilty by >>>> TPV. >>>> It's really ridiculous. >>>> >>>> This is a clear violation of the in the first place by LL required GPL >>>> licensing. It puts further restrictions on developer

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy: commencement date

2010-03-22 Thread Ryan McDougall
heers, On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Carlo Wood wrote: > I'd like to see this question answered, too. > > On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 06:08:58PM +0200, Ryan McDougall wrote: >> The policy deeply confuses users and developers together, making it >> appear to me that &qu

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy: commencement date

2010-03-21 Thread Ryan McDougall
njoy the weather. Cheers, > Cheers, > -- joe > > On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Ryan McDougall wrote: >> >> So for any malicious viewer developer, all he needs to do to avoid >> sanction under the TPV policy is claim his viewer has no intention of >> connecti

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy: commencement date

2010-03-21 Thread Ryan McDougall
. Cheers, On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Joe Linden wrote: > No, it only governs viewers that actually do connect to the SL grid, not > those that are capable of doing so (but don't.) > > On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Ryan McDougall wrote: >> >> If so, in effect,

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy: commencement date

2010-03-21 Thread Ryan McDougall
So any software that implements SLUDP is a TPV, and subject to you policy? Because if it *can* log into SL, and someone *does* one day log into SL, then it's "any third-party software client on any device that logs into our servers"? If so, in effect, the TPV policy governs all SL protocols? Chee

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy: commencement date

2010-03-21 Thread Ryan McDougall
So you understand how LL employing such specialists, working a language the community "can't even understand", so admittedly protect their own self-interest (because it's a business), might create a a skewed balance of power that might cause the disadvantaged party to be mistrustful... right? Peop

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy: commencement date

2010-03-21 Thread Ryan McDougall
The policy deeply confuses users and developers together, making it appear to me that "users" can place "developers" in violation of your policy against their will. Let me explain: Let's say I develop a client expressly designed to log into OpenSim for example. Because of protocol compatibility,

Re: [opensource-dev] Fwd: Request for comments about llSetAgentEnvironment / SVC-5520

2010-03-14 Thread Ryan McDougall
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Soft Linden wrote: > On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Ryan McDougall wrote: >> >> I'm not interested in how to humbly coax LL's >> good will on bended knee > > And that's not what has been asked of you. The rest of you

Re: [opensource-dev] Fwd: Request for comments about llSetAgentEnvironment / SVC-5520

2010-03-14 Thread Ryan McDougall
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Soft Linden wrote: > On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Ryan McDougall wrote: >> >> Perfect example of where your understanding is misplaced: no, open >> source license != open source project. An open source license only >> require

Re: [opensource-dev] Fwd: Request for comments about llSetAgentEnvironment / SVC-5520

2010-03-14 Thread Ryan McDougall
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Soft Linden wrote: > On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Ryan McDougall wrote: >> >> LL unilaterally designs and implements code behind closed doors, where >> it is accepted and merged then deployed -- all without any outside >> partici

Re: [opensource-dev] oh give me a break

2010-03-14 Thread Ryan McDougall
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Kent Quirk (Q Linden) wrote: > > On Mar 14, 2010, at 2:41 PM, Marine Kelley wrote: > >> However it is true that LL has delivered a bad message recently, by >> publishing the TPV and the closed-source SL 2.0 the SAME day. The TPV >> burdens us developers while fr

Re: [opensource-dev] Fwd: Request for comments about llSetAgentEnvironment / SVC-5520

2010-03-14 Thread Ryan McDougall
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Soft Linden wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Maggie Leber (sl: Maggie Darwin) > wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Soft Linden wrote: >> >>> A totally healthy open source project usually can be developed >>> completely in the open, and in a way t

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy

2010-02-24 Thread Ryan McDougall
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 9:40 PM, Soft Linden wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Soft Linden wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Ryan McDougall wrote: >>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Soft Linden wrote: >>>> >>>> If you see any wordin

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy

2010-02-24 Thread Ryan McDougall
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Thomas Shikami wrote: > Ryan McDougall schrieb: >> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Soft Linden wrote: >> >>> If you see any wording that's ambiguous about that, let us know. >>> >> >> Section 3.b.iii says

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy

2010-02-24 Thread Ryan McDougall
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Soft Linden wrote: > > If you see any wording that's ambiguous about that, let us know. Section 3.b.iii says that Third-party viewers must comply with the GPL license. What if the view is not licensed under the GPL at all -- say Apache 2.0? Cheers,

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy

2010-02-24 Thread Ryan McDougall
As far as I can tell, LL provides a *service* called SL; and they can choose to deny access to that service to whomever they please for whatever reason they please. So long as they control the server software and grid infrastructure this will always be the case. Having an "open" viewer to closed p

[opensource-dev] Naali UI research

2010-02-12 Thread Ryan McDougall
We made a blog post about some of our UI research. http://realxtend.blogspot.com/2010/02/new-ui-in-development.html Short video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbKb-jSk3zY "Ether" drop-down will replace login and teleport screens. Comments from developers/designers requested. Apologies for

Re: [opensource-dev] Announce: realXtend Naali 0.1 (alpha) client viewer

2010-02-09 Thread Ryan McDougall
s wrote: >> >> Impressive stuff, my praise goes to the realXtend team for their work. >> Going to try it out right now. >> >> - Nexii >> >> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Ryan McDougall >> wrote: >>> >>> realXtend is proud to anno

[opensource-dev] Announce: realXtend Naali 0.1 (alpha) client viewer

2010-02-09 Thread Ryan McDougall
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