I noticed most users prefer Firestorm and it's considered the best third-party
viewer at this day. Although it's a thing of personal preference, I am a bit
worried that Firestorm gets all the attention, since I'm not seeing any of the
other viewers getting mentioned much since Firestorm is there. Like I said I
don't like it because it's very bloated and slow... the ideal viewer for me is
one just like the official SL client but with a grid manager, build / upload
limits removed, and new features added.
As far as I know the Second Life viewer is GPL licensed, so distributing it
should be possible like any other GPL software. Excluding the Havoc library
which supposedly caused OpenSim support to go away. Changes unrelated to the
Havoc lib should always be GPL too, so if LL adds something that OpenSim viewer
can integrate it should be ok. OpenSim is MIT licensed if I remember right, but
there's nothing wrong with distributing a MIT code and a GPL one under the same
name and website.
Building a viewer from scratch is something I don't believe will happen or
needs to happen. It would be an enormous amount of work, only to achieve
something very similar to what's already there. The SL viewer just needs work
in places where Linden didn't give it much attention, but is well optimized in
many areas.
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:55:28 +0100
From: garmin.kawagui...@magalaxie.com
To: opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de
Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] OpenSim's direction after Linden cutting support,
and the possibility of an official OpenSim viewer
I much prefer using Firestorm
for OpenSim
since developers
have clearly separated Opensim version
from the
SL one. Firestorm
431 31155 version
is very powerful and
there are of course some lacks.
But Firestorm
developers are very
responsive and they opened a section OpenSim
in their Jira (successfully tested).
On the other hand,
we can always think that people
who have made a
server would be best placed
to make a viewer.
Except that this
would lead to a paradoxical
situation where OpenSim developers
ask Linden Lab
permission to use sources V2/3/4,
keeping in mind
that the issue of licenses would
remain the same that with the SL viewer and the viewer FireStorm.
As for building a viewer from scratch,
as did our
realXtend friends
.... it's difficult
to gather enough
people and get results in
a significant delay.
GCI
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