[opensource-dev] A note on preserving "NO WARRANTY" for SL TPV developers
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:06 AM, 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. > > Sure they can, but they must call this license something OTHER than GPL. If they want to restrict freedoms granted by the GPL, then it ceases to be GPL and becomes a new beast. Licensing under GPL which LL has done in the past gives developers certain rights in the use of that code. Some freedoms and rights that the TPV curtails. LL is free to license their code however they want. What they can't do is gut the parts of GPL they disagree with and still call it GPL. By licensing the viewer under GPL and the preamble to the TPV seems to indicate this is their desire to continue to do so, implies a certain promise to allow certain things to be done with the software. If LL wants to restrict or take away rights granted by the GPL THEY MUST NOT CALL THEIR LICENSE GPL OR USE THE GPL PREAMBLE IN THEIR LICENSE. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ModifyGPL -- ZenMondo ___ 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
Re: [opensource-dev] Malicious payloads in third-party viewers: is the policy worth anything?
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Jesse Barnett wrote: > > > Ignoring this and giving the all clear with no other action taken on the > part of Linden Lab will instead demonstrate that the TPV is a worthless > scrap of paper. > > Correction, it only exist on paper if printed. The proper phrase is "a worthless configuration of pixels" The TPVP makes it clear what the consequences are for breaking the policy. 8c says: "If a Third-Party Viewer or your use or distribution of it violates this Policy or any Linden Lab policy, your permission to access Second Life using the Third-Party Viewer shall terminate automatically. You acknowledge and agree that we may require you to stop using or distributing a Third-Party Viewer for accessing Second Life if we determine that there is a violation." So either the lab will enforce this, or they will say "Well you are so popular you can screw around all you want". Is Emerald the viewer "too big to fail"? -- ZenMondo ___ 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
Re: [opensource-dev] lslwiki
LSL Wiki has an interesting history. Back when LL was ALL about user generated content (and support!) the LSL wiki was resident run, and hosted on Linden Servers. Then came the great break in via the website that stole user passwords and everyone's password had to be reset and Linden decided that it could not host any user generated content. So the LSL wiki went into private hands and its own website and bounced around for a short while before landing at lslwiki.net. As far as I know it is maintained by Catherine Winters aka Catherine Omega. I sent her a note via the contact page on her blog. We will see what the story is. But it seems to be the red-headed step-child of the LL run LSL Portal. Personally I like the wiki if for no other reason it does not use mediawiki and entries do not have to have a capital letter so its llSay and not LlSay. -- ZenMondo On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 1:16 PM, wrote: > Hey, y'all! Does anybody know what happened to the lslwiki? (lslwiki.net > ) > > It's been down a coupla days. Do we know who runs the site? LL support > says it's not LL. > > Thx!! > > - AK > > ___ > 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 > ___ 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
