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

[malachi]

I agree that there should be some sort of requirement in order to develop and distribute a 3rd party client. However that being said, who is in charge of coming up with this requirement? Code signing, Code review, whatever the case, who would be the ones reviewing the code? LL or the other developers? Does LL have the time and manpower to test, review, and judge each proposed client individually?

Does this registration apply to clients that are developed for personal use? or for the use of a small company?

I agree with a previous post that yes the tools available for content theft and griefing have made the situation worse. But, also the fact that expendable accounts are readily accessable has fueled this fire with jet fuel.

If I want to make a client to use for my company i have to register submit my client to the world at large... but if i want to create a billion accounts on my own website all i need to do is crash the grid a few hundred times and steal everyones content then ask for the RegAPI? Someone please explain this as it makes no sense.

Back on topic. Linden Lab offered the source Open for all. And now that All have take that source and done more with it than they could have ever imagined Linden Lab is trying to limit the openess of this source. After taking another moment to review yet again the GPL and FLOSS documentation on Linden Labs own site, it would appear that the only viable solution available to LL is to close the source, remove the GPL, and rewrite the server code. Why the rewrite of the server code? Because they have already given us the GPL source code. Which intitles us to COPY, MODIFY AND DISTRIBUTE our code however we like. Take the source create a client that can kill people in real life...(not possible... for dramatization) and there is ABSOLUTELY nothing LL can do about it. The code is open.

I dont agree that just anyone with a connection to the internet should be allowed to craft a client and start passing it out. However i dont agree either that we as developers should be forced to register and promise not to do evil things. Doing evil things helps find exploits. If we are criminals (or being looked at as such) then call us out on it. You ban people for nothing with out even investigating the abuse reports. but now you want us to register in order to do what you wanted us to? What was Second Lifes little catch phrase... "Second Life- Our world your Segregation"
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