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

[Tigro Spottystripes]

if encrypted communication is banned, languages other than what LL staff
can read, conversations with niche slangs and abbreviations,
conversations about very technical matters, IM commands to bots LL
doesn't have the source code etc would all also need to be banned

Zabb65 escreveu:
> I apologize for my originally harsh tone. I'm rather upset with how
> this is playing out. Emerald has nothing to do with the other two
> items listed for functionality that is at odds with their CS and/or
> ToS, and I don't support the other two items in any way.
>
> The quote from the email is as follows:
> "In the past we have been happy to allow development to proceed on all
> viewer projects, but recently some functionality has been developed
> that is at odds with our Community Standards
> <http://secondlife.com/corporate/cs.php> and Terms of Service
> <http://secondlife.com/corporate/tos.php>.  Some of this functionality
> includes the ability to encrypt chat, copy content in violation of the
> creator’s intent, and collect user data without clear disclosure.  To
> help our residents and viewer developers, we are creating a viewer
> registry that will allow developers to register viewers with us that
> comply with our guidelines and Terms of Service.  Viewers that do not
> comply may not be registered."
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 21:05, Tigro Spottystripes
> <tigrospottystripes at gmail.com <mailto:tigrospottystripes at gmail.com>>
> wrote:
>
>     isn't the ban on secure communications just a misunderstanding
>     resulting
>     from a couple of quotes taken out of context and put together in an
>     specific order?
>
>