[Opensim-users] Question about oar saving

[Kay McLennan]

Hi Laurent, et al,

I cannot answer your questions about "the normal behavior when saving [an]
oar [file]..."  However, like you, every time I upload an oar file, all of
the content includes my name only as the creator and owner.  In turn, as a
grateful user of all the creative commons and other freely shared content I
can find in different OpenSimulator grids, I am advocating a "cornerstone
convention" solution -- see the image at
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-odD2jgL2Fk4/UOMJpJ9ghEI/AAAAAAAAAbA/-1MGQUZSDAM/w497-h373/Cornerstone%2BProject%2B1.jpg
.

More specifically, after reading Pam Broviak's recent blog post entitled,
"How Much Credit Do You Have to Give?" [to virtual world content creators
-- see
http://www.publicworksgroup.com/blog/2012/12/how-much-credit-do-you-have-to-give],
I was motivated to think about the best ways to give credit to the content
creators that generously share their work with others.  In turn, I came up
with three possible best practice ideas (see below):

(1)  Since the information in the "Name" text box and "Description" text
box on objects is always preserved (even when content is moved around via
OAR and IAR files), use these two boxes to identify the original creator(s)
of a virtual world build.

(2)  [If my own building experience is typical...]  Open source or creative
commons content items very quickly end up unlinked and accordingly,
disassociated from their "root" identifier prim/sculpty.  Accordingly,
using a transparent phantom cornerstone in the lower front left-hand corner
of a building or object could be one convention for identifying the origins
of builds and accompany content.

(3)  The further use of a note card in the cornerstone (in concert with a
note card giver script) would be a way to acknowledge the origin of
additional content in the build.

What do you think?  Is the "Cornerstone Project" [to establish a convention
for providing credit to the generous content creators in virtual worlds] a
viable solution?

Again, as the [low budget] "chief cook and bottle washer" for the nine
island grid I created to use in my e-teaching, having access to all of the
content various talented and generous OpenSim creators make available is
invaluable to me.  Accordingly, I would like to keep giving credit were
credit is due as well as hope to motivate even more content sharing.

Best,
Kay


On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Laurent Bechir <laurent.bechir at madonie.org
> wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I've noticed when loading the oar file of a backup, all objects were
> marked as created by me, even those which were not. Does "--publish" flag
> solve this problem ? I've read its purpose, but I don't understand it
> completely. Why does the normal behavior when saving oar is not to keep the
> creator and owner of objects ?
>
> I've also seen about the "--perm" tag that :
>
> If the --perm option is specified then objects with insufficient
> permissions will not be saved to the OAR. The user whose permissions are
> checked is the estate owner. This can be useful for grids that allow their
> customers to export their regions to OARs, because it ensures that
> exporting to OAR can't be used to bypass content permissions.
>
> How is it possible ? I see no option in the ini files to force this
> behavior, so it's up to the customers to use or not this flag.
>
> Thank you
>
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