New Licensing Method On Marketplace

I’ve had a busy week off the field, so have had my Second Life time severely curtailed this week, which was a shame as I had a lot planned, and all the more disappointing as I intended to put my day on Strike on Wednesday to good effect in Second Life to make me feel better about losing a day’s pay!

However, I’ve been glancing around the forum and blogsphere and notice a little introduction to the SL Marketplace, which I spotted on this forum thread over at SLUniverse, started by Voodoo Radek. There’s a new licensing feature: “User Licensed” which looks like it’s designed for full perms items, when the system permissions are not the permissions you’re intending to sell the item as, for example textures need to be sold full perms so builders can apply them to their builds, but texture makers don’t want people reselling or giving away their textures and often don’t want the builds those textures are applied to being sold full perms, which is where this new permission comes into play.

So rather than the standard copy/Modify/No Transfer permissions you’ll now see on listings, things like this:

New User License Perms 2

If a merchant had ticked User Licensed as an option, there wouldn’t be a cross through User Licensed, if a merchant has ticked to see the product description for permissions, it would look like this:

New User License Perms 2

I’m sure I’m not alone in thinking there may be some confusion between User Licensed and see product description for details!

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