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 <[email protected]> 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 > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev >
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