(Sending for like the 4th time I hope this one gets through and sorry if I've spammed)
Regarding Morgaine's comments about FAQ 15 - I fully agree that this must be the case: On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Morgaine <morgaine.din...@googlemail.com> wrote: > And finally, FAQ.15 (in the context of licenses permitting free > distribution): > > > - Q15: Do the limitations of section 2.b on content export apply to > content that is full permissions? > - A15: Yes, they do. Residents retain intellectual property rights in > the content they create in Second Life and it is important for you to > respect those rights. By setting content to "full permissions" using the > Second Life permissions system, a content creator merely indicates that the > content may be copied, modified, and transferred *within* Second Life. > Setting content to "full permissions" does not provide any permission to > use the content outside of Second Life. > > > This is fine (surprise, surprise :P), but incomplete. It doesn't address > the quite common scenario of full-perm content created by Open Source or > Creative Commons developers *using 100% personal textures*, and > accompanied by a GPL, BSD, CC or other open source license which declares > that the content may be freely copied, modified, and transferred *anywhere > *, not only within Second Life. > > As is written in the answer A15, "Residents retain intellectual property > rights in the content they create in Second Life and *it is important for > you to respect those rights*." Respecting their rights in this case > requires you to to allow that content to be exported as its creator > desires. Therefore you either need to extend A15 with this additional case, > or add another FAQ Q+A (preferably immediately after #15) to address it. > > The free content I create for education is intended to be fully free, fully permissioned, and fully exportable to other grids. Beyond the Second Life permissions, I keep hoping for checkboxes on the Edit menu with common licenses or a space to put a link to the user's specified license that is kept with the object info just like creator name. In any case, when I include Creative Commons licensing with my educational tools, and explicitly say users have my permission to explore the content to other grids, then I expect that to be respected by Linden Lab as well! Sincerely, - Chris/Fleep Chris M. Collins (SL: Fleep Tuque) Project Manager, UC Second Life Second Life Ambassador, Ohio Learning Network UCit Instructional & Research Computing University of Cincinnati 406E Zimmer Hall PO Box 210088 Cincinnati, OH 45221-0088 (513)556-3018 chris.coll...@uc.edu UC Second Life: http://homepages.uc.edu/secondlife OLN Second Life: http://www.oln.org/emerging_technologies/emtech.php
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