Hello Snowcrash,
I think it is good having software to backup your items but....
As melanie sayed before, the ability to backup "Any" item would not be a good
idea as your software will be banned from major grids due to this.
To be honest we would also blacklist your software if we think it can be at
harm for the creators in our grid.
Please think if this:
Most people can not make a "copybot vieuwer" as the things people need for that
are available but also complicated to build if you dont have any experiance.
If your software is easy to compile without any knowledge it will be a base for
people to create these "copybot's" with.
This will not be the best advertisment for your software in my believe.
I think it will be best not to make it an opensource project .. but just
distribute only in binary form.
Also making it TPV compliant will be even better.
If it protects content from beeing ilegaly copied on "any grid" we will support
it for sure.
Just my two cents ...
Best regards,
Martin Forster
----- Original Message -----
From: Snowcrash Short
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 10:44 AM
Subject: [Opensim-users] Announcement of inventory tool (MyInventory), mostly
of interest to grid operators/grid nauts
Hi
I've been working on a client side tool for decentralizing user inventories,
which I will release as an open source tool in two weeks, some of the features
may be relevant to grid operators.
The basic premise of the tool is that the inventory and the backing assets of
the inventory items really should be controlled by the user. The tool is born
out of a frustration of having visited a number of grids. Each visit to a new
grid presents me with an empty inventory, and I can then spend time searching
for suitable item, clothing, attachments and other accessories.
For this purpose I have created a tool which will allow me to backup my
inventory to a local cache and then upload the contents to another grid.
If my tool becomes popular, both the upload and download mechanisms may have
some impact on the grid-operators, hence this email to serve as a notice.
The basic architecture is pretty simple, consisting of a number of import
agents, which can import the users inventory and backing assets to a local
database, and a number of upload agents which can upload inventory content to a
specific account.
Backup/Import
There are two import agents, one which will import .iar files and one which
works very much like I believe "Stored Inventory" works, which can backup the
inventory of an avatars inventory. Avatar backup/Import is governed by a
policy. Currently there are two policies, one complying with a very restrictive
interpretation of the Linden Labs policy on backups, and a completely
unrestricted policy, where anything that can be downloaded will be downloaded.
When a new account is registered in MyInventory it checks if the account is
for a Linden Lab grid and limits the choices of policies to policies suitable
for LL's TOS, I cannot and do not know if other grids have similar policies, I
can well imagine that Avination has a similar restrictions, and would like
similar logic implemented to restrict the download. Any grid operator which
would like to have backup governed by a more restrictive policy are invited to
notify me and I will attempt to implement the policy prior to the first release
of the source code. or supply patches at a later time.
Upload/Export
MyInventory supports two mechanisms for uploading inventory content,
traditional upload using UDP/CAPS and direct access to the inventory and asset
web-services.
Due to limitations in the UDP/CAPS protocol each upload will create new
assets, and as of my latest read of the Open Simulator code the asset store
does not support "single instance assets", i.e. it does not use a checksum to
verify if the asset already exists, for this reason MyInventory prefers to
upload using direct access to asset and inventory web-services.
I would propose that the grids which chooses to support MyInventory augment
their "GridInfoService" entries with the url's for the asset and inventory
web-services, e.g.
[GridInfoService]
assets = http://assets.osgrid.org
inventory = http://inventory.osgrid.org
Best regards
Snowcrash
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