Paul Surgeon wrote: > What a pity as I don't know of any good replacements and writing > VOIP software is not a trivial task.
It's not so bad, really. And there certainly is open source voice communications software out there, albeit aimed more at enterprise applications than gamers. If the outcome of not being able to use TeamSpeak is a free game chat system, then we all win. > So the only way it could work is if the creators of TeamSpeak released a GPL > interface to their software? They could publish a well-specified protocol that we then implement to control a local client, I suppose. Protocol boundaries are a good indication of the end of a "derivative work" -- one doesn't usually worry about the licensing issues of using a GPL web browser to connect to a commercial web server. And it doesn't have to be GPL, just a GPL-compatible license. This generally means any "loose" non-copyleft license, a-la MIT or BSD. Other copyleft schemes (copyleft is the trick whereby you licence derivative works only if they are distributed under the same license) tend to interfere with each other. Basically, if they (TeamSpeak) want to make this work, they could do it pretty easily. They may be amenable to suggestions, if someone wants to talk to them. They are clearly linux-friendly if not completely free-software-friendly, at least. Andy _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
