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But afaik the second life viewer is not exactly open source, but instead only selected teams can participate. EDIT: the viewer code is LGPL , but forked Third party viewers are subject to particular terms https://secondlife.com/corporate/third-party-viewers
It's been open source since 2007. Linden Lab recently moved the sources from Bitbucket to Github. The Firestorm viewer sources are at " https://vcs.firestormviewer.org/ ". It's a major fork. Technical documentation of the client-server protocol is at " https://wiki.secondlife.com/ " It's out of date, but it helps. The real progress is that the build procedure has been cleaned up. It used to require ancient versions o…
But afaik the second life viewer is not exactly open source, but instead only selected teams can participate. EDIT: the viewer code is LGPL , but forked Third party viewers are subject to particular terms https://secondlife.com/corporate/third-party-viewers
So it's open-source but not FLOSS
TFA suggests that the official git repo for the Linux kernel is on GitHub. I wonder if they really did their research
It's an easy mistake to make, the code is there and there's nothing to suggest it's a mirror.
Out of all the metaverse projects being worked on, SL coming out on top would be an incredible development
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So it's open-source but not FLOSS
No, open source means a specific thing. You're perhaps thinking of "source available", which means "you can read the source but have to comply to a bunch of stuff"
Earlier quoted context omitted.
So it's open-source but not FLOSS
No, open source means a specific thing. You're perhaps thinking of "source available", which means "you can read the source but have to comply to a bunch of stuff"
But afaik the second life viewer is not exactly open source, but instead only selected teams can participate. EDIT: the viewer code is LGPL , but forked Third party viewers are subject to particular terms https://secondlife.com/corporate/third-party-viewers
Those terms don't apply if you use the viewer to connect to non Second Life servers, such as Open Simulator. For Open Simulator, you have to deal with a somewhat grouchy lead developer who does not suffer fools gladly. (He's helpful if you don't waste his time. He ran a test region server for me and looked at what I was sending to get something to interoperate.)
Some viewers turn on extra features when talking to Open Simulator. The main one is "varregions". Second Life is divided into squares 256m on a side. Open Simulator supports other sizes. Also, there are several competing money and asset systems for Open Simulator grids, and third party viewers support those.
This is the metaverse at the level where it actually works.
It's been open source since 2007. Linden Lab recently moved the sources from Bitbucket to Github. The Firestorm viewer sources are at " https://vcs.firestormviewer.org/ ". It's a major fork. Technical documentation of the client-server protocol is at " https://wiki.secondlife.com/ " It's out of date, but it helps. The real progress is that the build procedure has been cleaned up. It used to require ancient versions o…
Is a "viewer" a Second Life term for "game client"? And is Firestorm a particular FOSS client for the game?
If so, that's really interesting... like you can access the same shared Second Life world but through a custom client? Does it reuse existing game assets or you free to reinterpret character models, textures, effects, etc.?