Hi Jason, Agreed. But the question was not directly linked to GPL and the status of the sources.
Let me summarize it again. One person creates a 3rd party viewer and distributes KDU and Vivox components packaged with it. Claiming the earlier here mentioned license terms would allow that. However LL states that these components are not redistributable which seems to be contrary to what those quoted license passages say. So I'd ask again if someone from LL who are licensee of KDU and Vivox could clarify if it is legally possible to package these components with a custom built viewer or not. Boy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Giglio" <[email protected]> To: "Boy Lane" <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 8:50 AM Subject: Re: [sldev] Vivox and Kakadu licensing issues. > Boy Lane wrote: >> Hi Gigs/Jason :) >> >> This doesn't really make sense as both are dynamically linked and not >> required to run the client. > > Dynamically linking a closed source library isn't a pass for violating > the GPL. > > Regarding that copyright notice you posted, Vivox itself uses a bunch of > open source software... The Vivox client is in large part just BSD > licensed code that has been closed. > > -Jason _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
