[sldev] 3rd party viewer policy post on blogs.secondlife.com

[Gordon Wendt]

If LL just keeps this as a way to note which viewers are sanctioned as
reliable 3rd party viewers it will be great, it wll all but elminate
scamming people into downloading fake versions of any well known 3rd party
viewers and will give the developers a mark of trust.

 It worries me that extremists like Ann and Prok want this to be something
it's not, a mandatory full code cavity search to connect to SL if you will,
but the Lindens already ignore Prok most of the time and hopefully they'll
ignore the other extremists who essentially want to close source SL again
and/or make it so 3rd party viewers have to be licensed to enter but cannot
distribute their code any further (currently a violation of the GPL so it
would require a license change) to prevent people using it maliciously.

-Gordon

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Stickman <stickman at gmail.com> wrote:

> > This is likely to have a negative impact on interest in supporting the
> > viewer at dev level.  There is little point in working on something that
> you
> > cannot use and test because access is denied.
> >
> > It's equivalent to a website allowing only specific builds of web browser
> to
> > connect.  With this move, you will drop right off the main open source
> > highway and into a backwater.
>
> There's been a lot of discussion on this issue, about what should be
> done and what makes sense, and what's uncontrollable.
>
> From what I read, LL's making a very smart move here.
>
> 1) They're going to be officially listing the legit third party viewers.
> 2) They're going to ban those residents who create harmful viewers
> that break the ToS.
>
> I mean, where's the problem? Did I read something wrong?
>
> -Stickman
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