Second Life

[Ric Moore]

On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 22:52 -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote:
> 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:
> > > 
> > > http://www.haxxed.com/rpms/secondlife-1.10.5.1-1
> > 
> > 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.

The game has been updated, so the one installed from Extras will not
work, the site refuses login. I'm having to dnload the tar file. Ric