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 <[email protected]>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 <[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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