[Opensim-dev] Legal Issues was RFC Profiles

[Tristan]

Adding to that list, Creative Commons would be a good one to add as well.

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Tristan <tristan.wattswillis at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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