That is awesome to read, Crista. It is what I suspected, but even better. Daniel
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Cristina Videira Lopes <[email protected]>wrote: > The OpenSimulator project has absolutely nothing to do with Linden Lab, > aside from the fact that it includes one plugin that implements the protocol > that their open-sourced viewer understands. In the extreme worst case > scenario, if code in OpenSim was proven to come from the GPL viewer, OpenSim > would have to be re-licensed as GPL -- that's the worst that could > conceivably happen (and I bet some would think that wouldn't be a bad > thing). But, due to the project's strict contribution policy [1], we have no > code based on the LL viewer and derived viewers, and we also have no code > from anyone who has been exposed to Linden Lab servers. So that worst case > scenario is beyond the realm of possibility. > > This is not to say that a future buyer of Linden Lab would never, ever try > to stop an open source project from getting in the way of their product. > They might. I doubt Microsoft would do that, but there are companies much > worse than Microsoft. > > That's why we have that very strict contribution policy in place. If the > future owner of Second Life would try scare tactics on the project, they > might scare people, but they wouldn't get very far, because they would have > no case. Unlike Blizzard and others, Linden Lab went public with their > protocol and encouraged people to use and extend it. We should thank them > for that (it's a huge liability from the point of view of being acquired by > others) and wish them the best to recover from the bad time they've had > recently. > > [1] http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Contributions_Policy > > On Sep 30, 2010, at 4:07 PM, Daniel Smith wrote: > > > > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Melanie <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I can't see MS continuing with OpenSource viewers, and I can't see >> them supporting any platform other than Windows for the closed >> viewer they would come up with. >> >> I would most certainly liquidate my assets and leave if that were >> happening. >> >> Melanie >> >> >> > > The core thing I care about is not so much what MS would do with SL.... I > just dont want to see them trying to do anything to OpenSim. It's all > speculaton, of course. Recent events (Oracle, and what they are doing to > Sun/Java/Google) prompt my question. > > Daniel > > > -- > Daniel Smith - Sonoma County, California > http://daniel.org/resume > > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev > > -- Daniel Smith - Sonoma County, California http://daniel.org/resume
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