That should have read "violate the license", not ToS. ~T
Thomas Grimshaw wrote: > This is all pretty ridiculous. > > The viewer code is open source. Third party viewer developers MUST make > the source available so as not to violate the ToS. This means that ANY > third party viewer code might be changed at some point to add something > malicious, there is absolutely no way of detecting, preventing or > avoiding this. All this policy will do is drive the current "bad" > viewers to spoof and hide their identity. > > I'm pretty sure the Lindens know this, and so i'm taking this > announcement with a pinch of salt... it serves as a warning to > residents, and it really doesn't affect viewer developers. > > Tom. > > Gordon Wendt wrote: > >> If LL just keeps this as a way to note which viewers are sanctioned as >> reliable 3rd party viewers it will be great, it wll all but elminate >> scamming people into downloading fake versions of any well known 3rd >> party viewers and will give the developers a mark of trust. >> >> It worries me that extremists like Ann and Prok want this to be >> something it's not, a mandatory full code cavity search to connect to >> SL if you will, but the Lindens already ignore Prok most of the time >> and hopefully they'll ignore the other extremists who essentially want >> to close source SL again and/or make it so 3rd party viewers have to >> be licensed to enter but cannot distribute their code any further >> (currently a violation of the GPL so it would require a license >> change) to prevent people using it maliciously. >> >> -Gordon >> >> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Stickman <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> > This is likely to have a negative impact on interest in >> supporting the >> > viewer at dev level. There is little point in working on >> something that you >> > cannot use and test because access is denied. >> > >> > It's equivalent to a website allowing only specific builds of >> web browser to >> > connect. With this move, you will drop right off the main open >> source >> > highway and into a backwater. >> >> There's been a lot of discussion on this issue, about what should be >> done and what makes sense, and what's uncontrollable. >> >> From what I read, LL's making a very smart move here. >> >> 1) They're going to be officially listing the legit third party >> viewers. >> 2) They're going to ban those residents who create harmful viewers >> that break the ToS. >> >> I mean, where's the problem? Did I read something wrong? >> >> -Stickman >> _______________________________________________ >> Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: >> http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev >> Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated >> posting privileges >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: >> http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev >> Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting >> privileges >> > > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges > _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
