[Opensim-dev] Legal Issues was RFC Profiles

[Tristan]

That seems like a good idea. Another idea would be add a drop down box and
choose a type of license, such as Copyright: All rights reserved, or open
source, etc...

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Michael Cortez <mcortez at gmail.com> wrote:

> James Stallings II wrote:
> > Perhaps So Mel, But....
> > ....Where is the similar licensing or release from obligation under
> > license for the OS grid content?
> >
> > It seems to me there's a double standard in the offing here, whereby
> > content from the Linden Grid is hands-off for legal reasons, but not
> > so much as a tip of the hat in that direction when it comes to content
> > from an OS grid.
> Depending on your interpretation of Linden Lab's legal documents
> including their ToS, one may come to the conclusion that the only person
> who is being granted a copyright license (regardless of what permissions
> check boxes you click) is Linden Labs, who is being granted a right to
> use a creators content as intended by the creator within their system.
>
> Now of course this is just one interpretation, and I'm sure if you get
> two different lawyers in the same room looking at those documents you
> may get two completely different answers as well.
>
> This in my humble opinion is a good reason why I believe the asset
> system should be extended in such a way that every asset can have a text
> blob attached to it that includes actual licensing terms -- perhaps with
> the default check box permissions being assigned to various creative
> commons licensing attributes.  Or allow the user to decide what those
> check boxes mean for themselves and when they encounter an item where
> they're different, they're informed via blue message box (for legacy
> integration) -- but even better would be to talk to the Hippo and other
> alternative viewer creators, to see if something can be integrated to
> display the creators licensing terms directly.
>
> Just a few random thoughts,
> --
> Michael Cortez
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