[Opensim-users] Announcement of inventory tool (MyInventory), mostly of interest to grid operators/grid nauts

[InuYasha Meiji]

You make me wish there was a like button on this page.  May I quote some 
of this on my own grid's TOS?

InuYasha.



On 11/15/2012 3:54 PM, dz wrote:
> "It took me 2 days to copy stuff to a new grid" is not justification 
> for the harm this tool will do to the OpenSim content creation community.
>
> There is only one proper response to this "declaration of disregard" 
> for the policies and efforts of this community to prevent the 
> distribution of tools designed to subvert the rights of content 
> creators....  Otherwise, those IAR files you want to load will never 
> have the quantity and quality of legal assets you desire.
>
> There are a multitude of ways to resolve these asset sharing/transfer 
> issues,  and a LOT of good work has been done.
>      Yes,  we need an easier way to load IAR files....
>                      Why don't you implement this as a first step and 
> start the process of working WITH the community?
>                      (Instead of proclaiming your intent to implement 
> something that requires us to react in a publicly negative way)
>
>      Yes,  we probably need to implement some kind of license tagging 
> to assets to properly identify those place in the PD BY the creator.
>                     Even so,  I lend my voice to the chorus of "IANAL 
> BUT.... I hope you confer with proper legal counsel before you jump 
> off the liability cliff " ....
>
> I hope my response to your request for grid operators to participate 
> in this discussion is clear....
>       I will disconnect and ban anyone who attempts to connect to any 
> of the grids I administer using this tool.
>       I will publicly identify those users and share all the 
> information I am able to collect with all of the operators of any 
> other grid I can communicate with .
>
> Those of us who have been here a while have seen this all before, and 
> I'm sure we will see it again.
> The response can only be "We do NOT want your tool as designed, we 
> WILL NOT tolerate its use."
>
> NO, there are NO valid reasons to welcome a tool that incorporates a 
> disregard for an important part of the Opensim community (creators)
> Public pressure was enough to thwart the public release of the last 
> "OpenSource sim copy utility".
> I continue to hope that the vocal opposition we expressed as a 
> community to that effort is brought to bear here as well..
>
> d
>
>
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