I have trouble understanding these remarks by Melanie and Adam, so am hoping to get some clarification:
On Feb 20, 2009, at 3:02 PM, Melanie wrote: > It serves a purpose, handles a use case, that gives little benefit > to OpenSim. i thought the reasoning goes also the other way around: "if someone has a use case where they'd benefit from using Tahoe with OpenSim, they are free to do it" if it doesn't give much benefit for OpenSim otherwise, that doesn't matter, as long as people who want to use it can, without hurting OpenSim (by requiring a lot of / strange, otherwise unbeneficial changes in the core). > The point is not to provide raw storage. The point would be that > every user provides storage for _what they use_. > If OSGrid were to use tahoe for assets, and run a forced update, > more than half the grid would be down for days! > With Tahoe, no one would have any assets in that time, because too > many nodes would be missing. Ok well so be it for OSGrid. But perhaps some other user, maybe e.g. some intranet somewhere, has it differently. > And, we just prefer BSD..... Feel free, but there is a wealth of good software as GPL, and I sure hope to be able to use those too. Like I'm happy to use Linux to run our company servers, and it being GPL is just fine for me. But I'm also happy that Ogre is BSD so we are free to license our games however we need. So am curious of this remark Adam made: > Melanie >> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 05:30:57AM -0500, Frisby, Adam wrote: >>> Client libraries and things are usually needed. >> As far as I know GPL viral clause doesn't apply if you just use the >> API, or >> don't link the code statically. My understanding is that licenses are about distribution, and are not about usage. So if e.g. a company has an internal Tahoe datastore, and they'd like to use OpenSim to e.g. run their business using some sort of virtual office application (yes we've thought sometimes that should make a game of running the company 'cause the guys seem to be more enthusiastic to play games than run business often..), and there exists some sort of storage module for OpenSim that allows that .. can't the company just install those and use them, no matter that some of the parts are BSD and some GPL? They would not be able to make a closed source product that bundles OpenSim and Tahoe, 'cause are using Tahoe under GPL, but they are not distributing .. just using. I'm sorry, am not a lawyer so perhaps should not be posting about these at all. I guess what Adam meant by 'Client libraries and things are usually needed' is that the OpenSim can't integrate GPL libs for Tahoe usage .. but can a 3rd party plugin for using them together still exist? I'm sure it can it an at least internally if I don't tell anyone! :p I sure hope this doesn't explose to a huge license discussion, please just point to a better place or reply in private if that would happen. ~Toni _______________________________________________ Opensim-dev mailing list Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev
