(I am not a lawyer, but...) >From the text in the blog post, it looks like it's intended to be an anti-fragmentation measure. I don't think it's literally a desire to make the TPV devs wait until the official viewer catches up (and definitely not to make TPV people "develop [features] for the LL viewer").
To help allay the concern, though, I think there could be some sort of "with specifications released by LL" exception - once an API has been hashed out and released, I can't think of any benefit to making the TPV wait. That'd make the rule a little more tightly focused on getting TPVs to make specs that LL's willing to endorse and use. Celi On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Jessica Lyon < jessica.l...@phoenixviewer.com> wrote: > Actually, under 2.k, features like breast physics, secondary attachments, > shared parcel WL etc, would have never been permitted to exist. And this > means that any feature in the future to which a TPV may conjur up, which > effects the shared experience (Ie. something one user could see but another > couldn't) will need to be developed for the LL viewer by TPV devs, accepted > by LL, released by LL before a TPV may release it themselves. Another > example would be the Mesh deformer from Qarl, if LL were not interested in > it.. none of us would be allowed to release it in our viewers. > > Jessica Lyon > Project Manager > The Phoenix Viewer Project, Inc. > > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Cinder Roxley <cin...@cinderblocks.biz>wrote: > >> Yes, you're mistaken. The key phrase there is "alters the shared >> experience of the virtual world". A tpv can alter individual user's >> experiences, (UI, build tools, controls, graphics enhancements) but not the >> shared experience of the world. IE, exposing information such as the >> friend online visibility of *other users*. >> >> Kind regards, >> -Cinder >> >> >> On 2/24/2012 4:44 PM, Nalates Urriah wrote: >> >> Does this new policy essentially eliminate the reason for the existence >> of 3rd party viewers: >> >> 2.k : You must not provide any feature that alters the shared experience >> of the virtual world in any way not provided by or accessible to users of >> the latest released Linden Lab viewer. >> >> >> http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Second-Life-Viewer/Third-Party-Viewer-Policy-Changes/m-p/1399141 >> >> This seems to say all changes can be submitted to LL but not implemented >> until and unless LL approves them and adds them to the SL viewer. Am I >> mistaken? >> >> -- >> Nalates Urriah (SL AV) >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: >> http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev >> Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting >> privileges >> > > > > -- > Jessica Lyon > Phoenix Viewer Project Inc > http://phoenixviewer.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting > privileges >
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