First Brownbag meeting on 3rd party viewers

Last night we had the first of the 2 Brownbag meetings with Linden Labs regarding the 3rd party viewer policy for Secondlife. After _the_ blog post and the rampant rumor mill the actual results were quite tame, info coming back from Lindens was coherent and was quite supportive of open source and the work the 3rd party developers had done.

The key outcomes are :-

• LL will not be restricting access to the Secondlife Grid via technical means.


• The Viewer registry will be a purely optional thing, and is only there to give users some trust in what they are downloading, as well as provide who did it and a list of features etc


• LL will be taking more action against ToS violators


• Viewers will not break the ToS user actions will

The above points have the exception that LL will be looking out for viewers that have a primary aim is to break the ToS, eg cryolife etc.

We did not get very much information on encryption, LL just asked for real usage cases.

LL Commented that open source provided a valuable contribution to the viewer and Secondlife.

The next Brownbag is scheduled for next week