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

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On Tuesday 20 October 2009 9:12:17 pm Zabb65 wrote:
> 
> 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."
> 

The main push for this is due to third party clients are starting to embarrass 
LL at a major level now. Examples are:

More attachment points.
Client side AO system.
And more.

The above was requested for many years by residents. This is really 
embarrassing LL corporate folks and they probably decided to put a stop to it.