Do you think griefers are going to care about the TPV, or any policy for that matter?
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Jonathan Irvin <djfoxys...@gmail.com> wrote: > Linden Labs could care less about what you put in your viewer. They are > concerned about their product, which is Second Life. If YOUR viewer > connects to THEIR network, heck yeah you can be liable for it...maybe not in > the traditional sense, but you can agree you hold some responsibility for > your actions. All that "legalese" is to prevent us, the developers, from > shrugging our shoulders and saying "Oops, my bad." LL is covering their > backs. Regardless of how you phrase it, code it, compile it...without the > Second Life service. Your viewer is a brick. > > I don't know anyone's tenure here in SL, and I won't ask. But, I remember > "real" grid crashes. I remember before there was the grey goo fence and > people taking down the grid with the OFFICIAL SecondLife viewer. > > With Third-Party viewers coming into play and Linden Labs releasing more and > more bits of their service to the users, there has to be regulation and > restrictions in order to protect the business. There is infinitely more > chance for something to go wrong when you throw third-party viewers in the > mix. > > Jonathan Irvin > > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 06:04, Carlo Wood <ca...@alinoe.com> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 04:06:52PM +0000, Gareth Nelson wrote: >> > LL as copyright holder (or joint holder) can change the GPL with extra >> > restrictions as much as they like - so long as they make it clear. >> >> That would be EXTREMELY against the spirit of open source and the use >> of GPL. It would also make it impossible for any TPV to use their code >> anymore: TPV's added patches that are pure-GPL. LL does not have copyright >> on those patches, so those remain GPL. Therefore it is not possible >> to link code resulting from those patches with code that is GPL+TPVP, >> which would be non-GPL because it has extra restrictions. >> >> Thus, if this is true (or if they'd do that in the future) then it is >> EXTERMELY important to understand; because it DOES mean that all TPV's >> have to stop using any additional code released by LL after 30 April 2010. >> >> -- >> Carlo Wood <ca...@alinoe.com> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
