Thanks, Merov. Using Dzonatas' SNOW-375 will be a great way to extend the viewer capabilities.
Progress on SNOW-495 is good news - thank you! Is that against the 1.4 codebase, or Snow V2? Thanks, - JB On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 12:56 AM, Philippe (Merov) Bossut < me...@lindenlab.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Morgaine > <morgaine.din...@googlemail.com>wrote: > >> While that may be his intention, you can't make a new Snowglobe by placing >> a patch in Jira, applying the patch to Snowglobe sources, and then >> distributing the resulting viewer as if it were a new version of Snowglobe, >> exempt from being a TPV. >> >> If that were possible then everyone would do likewise with their own >> patches in order not to be caught by the TPV policy. >> >> So until SNOW-375 is committed into Snowglobe, Dzon is releasing a new >> viewer that is not Snowglobe, and it's clearly a TPV so it needs a name, >> which is why I asked what that name was. >> >> I expect that Linden Lab would not take kindly to such TPV clients derived >> from Snowglobe being called "Snowglobe-XXX" as a way of bypassing the TPV >> policy. Perhaps Merov could comment. >> >> > I'll try to answer that case to the best of my understanding: > > - Commit of SNOW-375 in Snowglobe: This is a big patch and, since we don't > have a CLA for Dzonatas on file, it can't be integrated as long as that's > not cleared. Note that, to the best of my knowledge, such CLA are asked for > contributions to most FLOSS projects. In the meantime, anyone can certainly > apply Dzon's patch and build a viewer. As long as you do it for yourself, > there's no problem with this. > > - Distributing Binaries: That indeed creates a TPV and TPV Policy will > apply if the viewer plans to connect to the SL grid and be listed in the > viewer directory. > > - Snowglobe Trademark: This is still an on going issue. In > https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SNOW-153, Robla added the following > comment: > """ > We still plan to protect this logo under trademark law. We haven't > announced a specific policy around this, but we're looking at the Fedora and > Firefox logos for examples of the tradeoffs. We don't want to have is > someone offering a trojan-horse laden viewer under the Snowglobe name > bearing this logo, and we want to make sure we've got the legal right to > stop that activity. > """ > I don't have details on where we stand legally on the trademark application > right now. In the meantime, using "Snowglobe-XXX" is unlikely to raise > issues. Using something really different though is likely safer. Which > brings us to... > > - Easy Packaging of TPV : This is actually the objective of the proposed > "BINDIST --- easy way to produce legally distributable binary packages" > https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SNOW-495 : I've been working on this in > the background and plan to get something together shortly. I already > identified all applicable patches so I'm not too far off producing a script > doing this. > > Cheers, > - Merov > > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting > privileges >
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