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

[Mike Monkowski]

This sounds very reasonable, but if the as-yet-unstated reason for 
instituting this policy is to eliminate copybots, then providing a list 
of all available copybots on the wiki wouldn't be very helpful.

Mike

Robert Martin wrote:
> Yah Koow that you are really looking at the question backwards.
> 
> What you should be looking at is KNOWN HOSTILE VIEWERS and any listing
> should in fact list why you can't use said viewer
> somewhat fictional examples
> 
> 1 Cryolife: leaked lab/testing viewer known to have copyright breaking
> features NOTE HAS HAD PERMISSION TO USE REVOKED BY AUTHOR NO LEGIT
> DOWNLOAD LOCATION EXIST
> 2 ShoopedLife: known griefer and copyright breaking features may be
> recording logins and passwords for author
> 3 NailLife: illegally modifed copy of Emerald Viewer  GPL violation
> breaks copyright may be recording logins and passwords for author
> spoofs Emerald Client tags
> 
> 
> of course any listing should be in the wiki with a Linden Labs Content
> tag on it to prevent unauthorized editing
> 
> unless you are going to provide even a "Sponsored By IBM"
> build/download farm for projects to certify the clients as clean
> listing the BAD viewers would be easier
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