[Opensim-dev] Couple questions on scripts

[Melanie]

Hi,

basically, to answer "yes" to your question #1, ALL of the following 
must be true:

- The grid must be owned and operated by a single entity
- Said entity must have a TOS, statement and/or track record of 
respecting content creators' rights
- No outside regions can connect
- No outside persons can access the shell or database of the grid

It would be up to you to determine whether you trust the operator of 
the grid. Currently a few such grids exist.

Generally, if a grid allows outside connections or Hypergridding, it 
is not safe.

However, hypergrid is moving towards a safe way to distribute 
content from authenticating asset/inventory servers. Eventually this 
may lead to signed binary assemblies being passed around the 
simulators, with the region operators trusting the certificates.
However, this will likely not prevent retention of copies of the 
goods, so the above points about trusting the operators still apply. 
Even though your script source code can't be stolen in this future 
scenario, permissions as we know them today could easily be 
circumvented.

Melanie


Skidz Tweak wrote:
> Hi all, I finally set up a openSim of my own, and its working great. The
> development community in this project has done an outstanding job so far
> (based on my own experiences). 
> The setup process was easy, so easy I over complicated it by creating the
> database tables and such myself prior to running it causing some problems :)
> 
> I just had a couple questions:
> 1. Are scripts safe on other grids? I get a number of request to move my
> tools into other grids.
> 	And what I mean by safe is, people can't steal them.
> 2. I am guessing the real answer to question number 1 is no, so... Has there
> been any effort in the direction of maybe a different way to distribute
> items on the new grids? 
> 	For example, I could imagine an install package for a sim, or grid
> that could ensure  purchase in an encrypted maner with a cert or something.
> 
> Just some thoughts and thx for your time.
> 
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