[sldev] Permissions

[SL - Farallon Greyskin]

It's entirely possible for vendors to sell things mod/transfer and several 
do. Furniture makers for example frequently do.

There is a problem with that though. Both through bugs in SL and through 
fumbled fingers of the owner, mod objects can get destroyed when modding 
them. If the object was no copy, This creates a situation where the vender 
is CONSTANTLY fielding complaints from customers for new replacements.

Thus the mod/copy/no trans permission set is commonly used. It allows users 
to make multiple copies and be able to retrieve originals if something 
breaks. Also, if you want a person to be able to use multiples of an object 
like a plant or chair for their own use then you set the object copy, but if 
it was copy/trans then you will have just completely given away the object 
and it will end up in the freebie bins and for sale by other people. So if 
you want to give copy permission then you have to block transfer unless your 
goal was to give something away free to the entire grid (Which of course a 
lot of people do)

Except for poor permission interaction in linked and contained objects and 
bugs in the permission system which still exist today, the idea of the 
mod/copy/transfer permission set are good and transfer should definitely not 
be removed.

If there are any changes to the permission system (other than fixes for 
current brokenness like mod/copy objects going no mod when they are taken 
from world when they contain a no mod script) it would be nice to be able to 
do things like set an object for sale /permanently/ rather than just for one 
generation, and possibly allow a temp transfer so that everything could be 
set to "gift" and then the owner could give it away and people could regift 
etc until someone "claimed" it...

Farallon


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <rogier at corp.telexs.nl>
To: <sldev at lists.secondlife.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 8:33 AM
Subject: [sldev] Permissions


> By reading other SL list, i got an idea:
>
> Let's throw away the annoying no transfer permission setting on 
> objects/scripts. Since this SL this is also representing RL in a way.
> In RL, one can do whatever he/she likes with a bought product. E.g. give 
> it away to someone, either free, or for a price.
> When i want to give my tv away, i'm free to do so.
> Is this a good idea, to rip out this permission in SL? I think so.
> Also i'm thinking about the mod permission. E.g. make it only for scripts 
> inside objects.. not the object itself.
> Same example, if i want to adjust the looks of my TV, i'm free to do so. 
> (e.g. replace knobs, paint it, casemod it)
> The scripts however, can be no mod, since e.g. i in RL can't recreate the 
> print plates inside a tv, nor the chips.
>
>
> Let's hear your thoughts.
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