You must be new around here.

It seems a sour grape witch hunt of Mr Crystal and Emerald…. would that be because Emerald is so popular among the resident base?

Quite frankly, it is pathetic…

Do you use windows? I don’t and haven’t for years. I spend most of my time on my own servers and services. What I do care about is that I have the right to connect to Linden’s services and download, remove, and use any software, product, prim, or anything else that the end user license granted by the content creator allows.

What I do care about is that I’m allowed to import works created on my own services into SL. That the license in which I apply to my works will be upheld and regarded by Linden Lab and the Terms of Service. If my product is licensed under the gnu/gpl, I would expect that Linden would allow for such full permission works to be exported from their domain.

No reason to make this personal. I use all the clients for various purpose and will continue to do so. (hippo, meerkat, emerald, imprudence etc…) to connect to my own services and servers. I’ve also made modifications to such clients myself. I’ve just not distributed, nor will I accept any Terms of Service that state that I must adhere to the TPV polices to be in compliance.

Well then, we are not so far off from stating the same reasoning, just with different terms. And I’m talking about two different topics at once. One is the gnu/gpl and issues with the TPV, the other is Lindens Terms of Service where they expressly give or “grant license” of usage over content that is licensed under terms that is in direct opposition to Linden’s Terms of Service.

You do indeed agree that the TPV is not compatible with the GPL. Exactly. And Linden states that to connect to their service with a third party viewer, that you adhere to the polices of the TPV. Period.

This means that if you do not agree to the TPV policies due to the issues with the incompatibilities, that you cannot agree to the Terms of Service either. Which states that by agreeing to the Terms of Service that you are also agreeing to such related policies including the TPV.

No one has stated that Linden doesn’t have the right (whether right or wrong) to deny connections to their services. What is being stated is that Linden has no right to expect more from the license agreements of the gnu/gpl than they themselves would have to adhere to as the code is licensed under the same agreements whether Linden works on the code, or someone else does.

What about the code within Lindens’ domain that is licensed under various licenses that allow for such modification, distribution etc.. ?
By not allowing non permission items to be removed from SL, they are not complying with the terms that those items are licensed under.

Are you then stating that Linden has the right to harbor the works and not allow the removal of works from their servers despite license agreements that are clearly to the contrary? License agreements between the content creators and end users that pre exist any license agreements Linden has recently bestowed upon the community.

The Linden Terms of Service won’t stand up in a court of law.

Whether or not you agree this is just a power grab by Linden due to their belief that they can dictate what can and cannot be removed from the servers, I am stating that there are indeed works created within Linden’s domain that are licensed under licenses that are both incompatible with their Terms of Service and other related polices. If one can write a policy themselves granting “usage rights” or “grant rights” over such content, they make null and void the licenses in which the content was released.