SL Object Permissions

Object Permissions in Second Life?

What are the they? How do we use them or even find them? Well there is a great write up about permissions and how they work, or how to set them up on the second life community website written by Jeremy Linden which helped me to understand it all!

https://community.secondlife.com/knowledgebase/english/object-permissions-r57/

Well when you (Rez) create new objects or existing objects from your Inventory in world, in the build window you look under the general tab and there you can find the permissions, lets take a look at what we find and I will try to explain it!

Obviously we can see who the Owner and Creator are, and the Creator is who initially sets the permissions of the Object first time around, and beyond that any owner it is passed to can then modify any permissions gained from whom gave it. So if Modify, Copy and Transfer are all ticked, then the new owner will have these permissions, and could possible restrict them further for anyone they then pass/sell the object to.

Object Permissions allow us to dictate what other residents can do with objects we have created and mostly fall under these 5 concerns:

Anyone:

• Move: This applies to anyone around the rezzed object being able to move that object or not.
• Copy: Where someone can take copies of a rezzed object.

Next Owner:

• Copy: Where someone can rez/sell copies of an object, or they can only rez/sell the original single instance.
• Modify: this is the decision to let the next owner be able to make changes to your work or not.
• Transfer: This determines if the next owner can Resell or Gift the Object on beyond themselves.

Other important permissions to understand are:

• Share with Group: Here you can share a Rezzed object with a group, and the respective permissions will apply to that group which can be very handy when building as a group, but caution should be taken when sharing.
• Show in Search: I believe this can make your object show in search results from others, which would handy if your trying to sell objects, or wanted others to find and come see objects you create.
• For Sale: This allows us to determine the objects value and let people have the option to buy the object becoming the next owner and getting those permissions passed along, you can decide to sell the original and it be gone if sold, to sell a copy of the original, or just its contents.

Examples:

You want to sell a car which someone can alter, copy into new cars, but never sell to next owners:

	modify	copy	transfer
car	yes	yes	no

You will sell a resident a single original house that they can change the shape and color or textures for, resell or gift, but cannot rez/sell copies only the original and cannot read or modify an attached script:

	modify	copy	transfer
house	yes	no	yes
scripts	no	no	yes