While this may protect a viewer developer from direct responsibility towards a user, it does not provide any protection against LL. Assuming I have to clickwrap-accept TPV by 30 April before I'm allowed to connect to the SecondLife grid, I still accept universal guilt towards LL.
Example: A content creator sues LL for copyright infringement and LL comes as boomerang back to the dev who may not have done anything wrong, just someone else exploited a vulnerability LL put in the code in the first place. Who is guilty? The weakest link who said yes to TPV in the first place. User <-x-> Dev <--- LL |--------------------^ Nice try, but does not help. > Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:26:23 +0100 > From: Lance Corrimal <lance.corri...@eregion.de> > Subject: [opensource-dev] licenses and the "chain of command" > To: opensource-dev@lists.secondlife.com > Message-ID: <201003251026.24709.lance.corri...@eregion.de> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hmm... something came up on SLU... > > > on the bottom of the pile is the GPL, because every piece of source code > for > the viewer says "licensed under GPL v2". > > on top of that is the TPV, because linden labs think they can say so. > > ...regarding "connecting to Second Life" they actually can. > ...regarding imposing liabilities on developers they can NOT, but they > refuse > to see that, but that is besides the point anyways. > > BUT: > > there is nothing in the TPV that forbids you to put another "clickwrap" > license around your third party viewer, that the user has to explicitely > accept, which puts you back in the GPLed "no liabilities" state. > > > and legal practice in the last years has been that "clickwrap" licenses > (accept at installation/first start) have precedence over anything > "shrinkwrapped" (on websites or boxes) > > ... and in case LL changes the TPV to say that you cannot add additional > licensing terms, that would be in clear violation of the GPL v2 unless > they > completely relicense the whole source which they cannot do retroactively, > and > it would also be proof that anybody who had been claiming that the TPV > doesn't > "mean" that devs take all responsibility was simply lying through his > teeth. _______________________________________________ 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
