Am 2012-11-15 12:03, schrieb Melanie:
The risks in making such a tool open source is that any restrictions can be trivially removed by the knowledgeable user, creating what is in effect the ultimate copybot.
Well, true indeed, but the most important tool itself for copybotting all stuff out of SL, Opensim and so on has been GPLed OSS since 2007 - namely the Second Life Viewer. All you ever need to copy stuff is in there, so it is no wonder most people nowadays use illegitimate versions of the viewer to copy stuff if the want to.
IMHO, open source is a very bad idea for this type of software.
Since the tools to do have been around already as OSS for over five years, that claim is being disputable. Though of course lowering the barrier to copy stuff is always something that must be taken into consideration wisely.
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