Should you visit these creators, who do not make them full perm. The land they reside on, is made up of others work, they have copied freely, from homes to flowers, trees roads...etc. It's so ironic, and pointless, when almost everything is free. The point is, they want all avatars to visit their sim. to receive the item.

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Some do it for some weird control reasons? However I believe most to preserve their creation unmodified, others find their creations being sold by greedy wannabe SL types, who would make everything pay, but for the most part? I sincerely believe "most" have honest reasons they do it. hugs Merry Christmas. :)

Barring a certain grid that I shall not name, there are two typical reasons.

One is because the creator of these items (who also offers them) wants to have the option to upgrade them every once in a while. With full perms, these items may spread all over the Hypergrid's countless freebie sims where the creator can't hope to replace them with upgraded versions. Freebie shop owners who got the items from other freebie shops whose owners got them from other freebie shops don't even know where these items came from, much less check that place for upgrades. So people will be vastly more likely to pick up outdated versions from all-round freebie stores than to pick up the up-to-date version from where the creator offers them.

Examples of outdated items that are all over the Hypergrid include but aren't limited to Ruth 2.0 test release, Ruth 2.0 RC#1, Ruth 2.0 RC#2 (technically also Ruth 2.0 RC#3 and Roth 2.0 RC#1), Clubmaster Dance Machine 2.0...

The other one is sloppy freebie store "management" with no quality checks whatsoever. Store owners slap their stuff against the store walls as quickly as possible, and they can't be bothered to ever check if these items are okay because that'd take time and effort.

You wouldn't believe what I've seen. You think limited perms are bad? How about items that YOU as a customer can't take? I've even seen items that have obviously been acquired by copybotting a freebie sim wholesale because there wouldn't have been any other way for the store owner to acquire them (needless to say that nobody else could get them short of copybotting because the store owner hasn't "fixed" the rights) as well as sales boxes with exactly nothing in them.

If I see items with obviously accidentally derped rights, I sometimes notify the store owner about it in a notecard. Nobody has ever complained about it. If I get a reaction at all, it's usually something in the vein of, "Whoopsie, I haven't noticed that, thanks for pointing it out, I've fixed it."

All Items I make are free and full perm. I want people to modify them and improve them. If something I made is not full perm just god mode it. I love to see what people do with my things. I love walking around different sims and seeing my scripts running something unique, I enjoy helping people, and I enjoy letting people have fun. It's a game. It's a game. Enjoy it! Sometimes when things are given the permissions change to no copy no mod no xfer, im not sure why, but if it's something i made, feel free to make it your own. I hope you find some joy apart from real life in this game, and I hope have fun. When I first came here, I had the unfortunate experience of meeting an unsavoury individual who gave me an item. I rezzed it in a sandbox and an aquaintance took a copy b/c the sandbox for whatever region glitched, and made all items rezzed there full perm. Immediately the person who gave it to me, im'd me, and threatened me with law suits, so I just deleted the one that I had and told them so. No one needs to be set up for trouble in a video game, it's petty and stupid, and it doesn't help the game or the players. I'm for free full perm 100%. But I love people, and I love helping people, but not everyone is like me. That's the bottom line. Some people are control freaks and want to maintain control over something they gave you. And I don't care how people reply to this, I'm just going to laugh and be happy.

It’s easy. The arrogance of those who believe their life and work is something better. Take right and left of everyone, of course, only fullprem and mass can decide that they curtail all shared rights of the creator. With no copy no mod no trans. Because that's the only way people can get their sim and grid. Comfortable thieves, mostly dmca moralists. Everyone what he can. Money horny people who belong in the SL but not in the opensim. Never buy for items in opensim. All must by free.

Full perm, short for full-permissions-which-includes-copy-modify-transfer-ability applies to an item that is sold with these permissions. If it happens to be 'free', meaning no cost to buy, it means that you received for no payment an object that you can take apart, modify, copy and also pass on to someone else, either in its newly modified state or not. The fact that it was free and full perm does not mean that other objects that are 'sold' for no charge (free) will also be full perm.

Most builders who wish to sell (for free or otherwise) also want to preserve the integrity of their creations. They may choose to remove the permission to modify and leave copy and transfer, meaning that the state of the object cannot be changed by the buyer, but that it can be copied in its original state and also transferred to another user at no cost. This is the most usual state of permissions on objects put up for sale and for good reason. It allows everyone to enjoy the commodity while preserving the integrity of the builder. The builder should be the only user who can 'sell' an object although rules for this may vary across grids.

The reason for object permissions is often either not understood or misunderstood. It takes a bit for a noob to get her or his head round what the 'perms' actually mean. It gets even more complicated to understand when objects have contents because the contents of an object can also have permissions and they may not match the permissions of the object. This is most often an issue when an object contains a script with a different set of permissions. An object may have full perms but be still restricted in what the owner can do with it if it contains a script that's not full perm. No Copy is usually the permission that causes the problem and confusion as to why an object with full permissions cannot be copied when a script it contains is set to No Copy.

So, to end this long-winded soliloquy (which I apologise for) you are not stupid if you expected a 'free' object to be one that you can copy, modify or transfer. You just need to remember about permissions. If your 'free' object is full perm - no problemo.

Catchya

Okay, this my own personal perspective on this. Now , I know I am not known for being tactful and a bit blunt. Take what I have to say with a grain of salt, but....
1st off - Those complaining in any way about free items - may find themselves unable to access them anymore.
2nd off - Free items are an, "privilege" not a right ..
3rd off - One quick way to ruin free for everyone else is to complain about it.
4th off - There are many locations for free - pick one that is right for you.
5th off - If people would stop selling things that were put out to be free .. for $$ . Then this would of never been a need to anything other than full perm.
6th off - If you did not have so many alts on many grids you would not be concerned about certain restrictions.
7th off - However, it would be nice for somethings to be a little more able to be used in all ways.. it is what it is.
8th off - the sentence " call me stupid " should of told you that you knew that writing that in this forum may of been a bad idea, and leaves you open to negative responses.
9th off - Like sl - how many things have we all seen say full perm that are not full perm??? Not sure why anyone is surprised, but okay.
10th off - You opened the door for responses.. ect..