Re: [opensource-dev] "Resposibility" - Third party viewer policy

2010-02-26 Thread Lance Corrimal
Am Freitag, 26. Februar 2010 11:14:11 schrieb Morgaine: > The TPV should never have been written by someone who doesn't understand > deeply the details of the GPL and who does not have a good command of > legal-type language, which requires high precision in wording. They didn't > even understand

Re: [opensource-dev] "Resposibility" - Third party viewer policy

2010-02-26 Thread Morgaine
Colin, there is a problem in the way that you are reading the TPV. You are using commonsense. That is not how law works. It deals in what is actually written down. And what is written down is not commonsense. The actual words in the TPV, separate from any sane person's interpretation of what t

Re: [opensource-dev] "Resposibility" - Third party viewer policy

2010-02-25 Thread Colin Kern
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Vex Streeter wrote: > > GPL also specifically disclaims warranty and liability unless you choose to > provide such for your code or distribution.  Policy sections 1.c.i and > 1.c.ii are redundant w/rt GPL but_requiring_ such statements of downstream > distributors

Re: [opensource-dev] "Resposibility" - Third party viewer policy

2010-02-24 Thread Vex Streeter
Lance Corrimal wrote: Am Dienstag, 23. Februar 2010 21:16:44 schrieb Gigs: http://secondlife.com/corporate/tpv.php You all realize this is massively incompatible with the GPL, right? Correct me if I'm wrong... The whole "you are responsible" stuff seems to mean that