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This statement was released from LL on 2/24:
Third Party Viewer Policy Changes
02-24-2012 02:06 PM
Protecting Second Life users’ privacy and security is a priority, and today, we’ve made some changes to our Policy on Third Party Viewers to strengthen those protections for all users (Section 2.a.iii, 2.i, 2.j).
We’ve also updated the policy to be clearer about the sorts of innovations that developers should work on for their particular Viewers (Section 2.k), and which they should work on in partnership with Linden Lab for all of Second Life. This is so that we can avoid the problems that result when a Viewer changes the way elements of Second Life are defined or how they behave, in such a way that users on other Viewers don't experience the same virtual reality.
Here are the new sections of the policy:
2.a.iii : You must not provide any feature that circumvents any privacy protection option made available through a Linden Lab viewer or any Second Life service.
2.i : You must not display any information regarding the computer system, software, or network connection of any other Second Life user.
2.j : You must not include any information regarding the computer system, software, or network connection of the user in any messages sent to other viewers, except when explicitly elected by the user of your viewer.
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.
We encourage Third Party Developers to continue innovating with unique user interfaces, niche features, and ways of interacting with the virtual world, and we look forward to working in partnership with developers on ideas they have for new or improved shared experiences for all of Second Life. We want to incorporate more innovative new features into Second Life to improve the experience for all users, and we encourage TPV developers to submit proposals through our standard process. |
http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Second-Life-Viewer/Third-Party-Viewer-Policy-Changes/m-p/1399141/message-uid/1399141
I am hoping (wondering?) that maybe this will eventually help with some of the exploits people have discovered and used from time to time playing hockey, but we'll have to see.
The goal apparently is LL doesn't want TPVs to introduce new in-world content and effectsthat the rest of the grid can't see such as weird custom attachment points, different region behavior, custom object types, etc. It's supposedly not going to affect the TPV's UI's and special building tools or RLV and other such client side features. A lot of TPV users are upset about it. I'm not a TPV fan so I'm seeing it from a positive light. We'll see what comes out of it all!
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