On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 19:43 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 02:55 -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote:
I have made a package for the Second Life client. It's ugly, and it obviously can't go into extras, but it works for me:
Is the game package available? Or is it a non-free game? Ric
Non-free as in freedom, yes. Its closed source, available as an i686 binary only. I think you can play for free as in beer these days, and you don't even need a credit card...
I haven't been able to find the actual license terms for the client. It includes license texts for all the libraries it uses, but I didn't see any for the actual client. Thus I don't know what their redistribution policy is, so I'm distributing a nosrc.rpm for now. Linden Lab has been rather community friendly, reverse engineering the protocol has actually been okayed as long as it's "in good faith" for example.
I posted to the SL Linux Alpha forum, and... no responses at all so far.