Linden Lab invites reports of viewer license violations

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In the last several months, we've had numerous tips from readers that one or another of the available third-party Second Life viewers that are in distribution are in breach of the license agreements under which Linden Lab makes the source-code available. As the sole copyright holder (contributor's copyrights are assigned to Linden Lab via a contribution agreement), Linden Lab is the only party that can do more than apply limited verbal or social pressure for compliance. We've gotten quite a few readers asking how to report license violations, and if Linden Lab would seriously investigate those reports.


"We take copyright matters seriously," a Linden Lab spokesperson told us yesterday, "and people are welcome to report what they believe to be violations of the GPL terms under which we've made the viewer source code available."

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Linden Lab invites reports of viewer license violations originally appeared on Massively on Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.



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