Permissions Issues

Content Creators - this post is for you. If you are about to join us on the frontier (and we are expecting many of you at the end of the month) then you need to know about current permissions issues. This has been on the forum for weeks now, but as new folks you will likely miss it. It is wonderful to be generous with your goods, but you need to be informed also. I have a few things floating around out there from my first weeks in Openlife. I did mean for them to be gifts. I didn't mean for them to be full perm items :D So - be generous in your new land, but be true to yourselves also.



There is still a very large permissions problem in Openlife. I think the Powers That Be understand it and I know some folks do, but others -- according to the official forums -- are having a problem getting the idea that it IS a problem.

For those of you who do not understand why it is a big deal (and I certainly didn't until I went through all the steps a week or so ago) here is a visual aid. I am a firm believer in visual aids. Going through the motions yourself makes an even bigger impression :D



Step one: Find a non full perm item in your inventory -- one a friend will make up for you for this experiment is most likely best. In this case Sam is putting a pair of pants given to her by a friend into a box. It is a copy only item.


Sam set the box to be Take a Copy by checking the Allow anyone to copy box.



Step 2: Samara logs in (she's the hairless one on the left) and takes a copy of the box. The permissions on the box read (no mod - no transfer). She cannot give this BOX to Sam via profile.


Samara goes to the sandbox and places the box. It is still Take a Copy. She opens the box and gets the pants which still have no mod - no transfer permissions.

Sam and Samara have successfully transferred items that were not meant to be transferred by the original creator. I did check with the creator about this experiment and she said it was fine. The box was removed from the sandbox.

So, in effect, the Take A Copy feature can negate permissions applied by the creator of the item.

I suspect that most of us intend to sell just one item to one person when we make a sale -- not make it available to the whole grid :D Until this is fixed, keeping anything we want to set permissions on is most likely the wisest choice.

From a post by Sakai on Dec 9 in the forums:

The transit of items from non-creator and non-respective permissions will be addressed shortly. -> Note Openlife does not have an in world credits system at this point while there are still permissions issues to address.

I hope this step by step pictorial helped make the problem clear. Again, I think the people that need to fix it, understand. I just know that others are having a time getting the concept and being aware of the consequences.

Cheers.