Hi, On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Marine Kelley<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Sorry for making this message sound like a rant, but it seems that the RC > viewer has finally gone gold... without any prior warning. As a result, a > lot of people are now asking me when the compatible Restrained Life viewer > will be out, while I have not even finished working on my latest version. I > am now forced to release a half-done viewer (it is operational, it just > doesn't have all the features that I had planned to add for 1.23) so that > people can just keep using it.
Okay, so your Restrained Life patches are closely tied enough that they break on viewer updates? I could be wrong, but that's probably not helpful to your argument that they're not derivative works and therefore releasing them under your non-GPL compatible, non-open source license[1] is OK. (Especially as you're distributing compiled viewers containing them too.) I would ask for thoughts from Linden Labs, but they probably can't comment without contacting legal anyway. [1] http://realrestraint.blogspot.com/2009/03/rlv-license.html - forbids modification, distribution of the SL source code with the patch applied, distribution of binaries that contain both the patch and any other major changes compared to the official viewer, and sale. Each of these restrictions is GPL-incompatible. Aidan _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
