[Opensim-dev] oddities with asset storage

[Melanie]

The issue I have with the concept is one of copyright. I may not 
grant the right to keep a local copy of an asset, because I may not 
want it to work on local installations or another grid, I may not 
want to give up my script source.

Melanie

Dr Scofield wrote:
> Dirk Krause wrote:
>> Glad you asked :-).
>> 
>> I would do a mixture of the following (and admit that I didn't think it all through to the very end).
>> 
>> - introduce grid wide, region wide and personal (user) asset domains
>> - introduce quotas for these
>> - allow clones ('byref') assets, and copies that go into one of the domains, resp.
>> 
>> I then would expect to have grid wide assets that are 'always on', region wide assets that only are important when the region is connected, and personal assets that are only visible when the user is online (could even be an FTP server behind a cable beach server).
>> 
>> It boils down to: if someone treasures something, she better keeps it in her treasure chest, in her responsibility (and maintenance cost).
>> 
> 
> ok. so i now buy something in your region, take it with me, rezz it on my
> region. how would that work and how would that address your concerns? oh, and my
> region is rather volatile, it might be there one moment, it might be off-line
> the next.
> 
> 	DrS/dirk