User:Robin Cornelius/tvp mods

based on IRC discussion some ideas how to change section 7 to be more acceptable to everyone involved

How about :-

For section 7

7. Your Responsibility for Third-Party Viewers

If you are a user or Developer of Third-Party Viewers:

  1. All use and distribution of Third-Party Viewers must comply with Linden Lab policies and applicable law and must not:
        1. Violate or promote violation of the Second Life Terms of Service or Community Standards.
        2. Violate or promote violation of any applicable law or the rights of any individual or entity; or
        3. Expose Second Life users, Linden Lab, or third parties to legal liability or harm as determined by us in our sole discretion.
  
  2. Use of a 3rd party viewer is entirely at your own risk. Linden Lab shall not be responsible or liable for any Third-Party Viewers.

  3. Linden Lab does not provide customer support services for issues related to Third-Party Viewers. If you are a user of a Third-Party Viewer, you may
     contact us for customer support, but if we believe your issue is related to your Third-Party Viewer, we may not be able to assist you and may
     direct you to the Developer of the Third-Party Viewer. If you are a Developer, we urge you to provide customer support services for issues related
     to your Third-Party Viewer.

  4. If you are a user, we suggest taking reasonable precautions, including virus scanning, before installing and using a Third-Party Viewer. We suggest
     these precautions even for applications in the Viewer Directory because self-certification is no guarantee of an application’s compliance with this
     Policy.

Definitions

9c . By “Third-Party Viewer,” we mean any software not supplied by Linden Lab that connects to our servers that support Second Life. Third-Party
     Viewers include software for viewing Second Life, any chat clients, utilities, bots, and proxies as well as applications that may not be listed
     in our Viewer Directory.

2b)

You must not use any functionality that Linden Lab’s viewers do not have for exporting content from Second Life, unless it is content you own 
copyright on or you have explicit consent from the copyright holder(s) of all the content that is being exported. Even if the content is set to “full 
permissions,” you must have explicit consent from all copyright holders of each and every content component to be exported before exporting it."

Proposals received

"and distribution" in 7.1 should be omitted, because a TPV may be distributed (under GPL) by random parties, such as people who roll distros, or fix security bugs for a distro. So "All use and distribution" cannot fall under such a wide umbrella clause.

7.1.3 "as determined by us in our sole discretion" is not appropriate, and adds nothing useful to the TPV. So I'd suggest simply omit it, finish sentence on "harm".