restricting rights in delivered scripts

Hi, i wonder if i can deliver a script to customer, but retain the rights/control to the scripts.
I would like to only have the script in the one product that i deliver, and that the scripts should be locked for reading.
Eg
The customer should not be able to
* open and read the scripts
* move the script from the one object to another of his own objects

What are the settings for that?

I would also like to know if it is posible to get an im or email if the object in question is being duplicated

tyia.
Ab

To prevent the next owner from reading, set next owner: No Modify.
To prevent the next owner from copying, set next owner: No Copy.
In the script's properties you set next owner's permissions.
You can open the properties by right clicking the script in the inventory and pick 'Properties' from the menu

You cannot, however, keep them from taking the script out of the object. You could have some logic in the script that turns it off or deletes it on reset if you aren't the owner and/or the object it is in doesn't look right though.

Also, you can make it llInstantMessage you and then llDie if it changes owners or have it check against llGetObjectName on a changed event. Shouldn't use llDie if you use llGetObjectName though, just have it llInstantMessage you, because often SL won't get the object name in time and the return from llGetObjectName won't be correct.

Thank you to you all 3 for taking time to explain this. I will look into the changeOwner thing and see if i can use that.
Thanks!
BR
ab

assuming the object the script is placed in is no-mod

isAuthorised(){
  if ((llGetCreator() != "[your key here]") || (llGetObjectPermMask( 1 ) & PERM_MODIFY)){
    llRemoveInventory( llGetScriptName() );
  }
}

call from any on_rez event

then even if they remove it from your no-mod object, they can't place it in another object (because it'd have to be created by you AND no mod) caveat is if they have a mod item of yours, and place the script in it on no script land, then pass it with no-mod for next owner then they can get away with it.

but you could similarly check for a name of a prim, or some hidden variable. in modifiable prims, but there's a possibility they could discover the hidden variable.

Void, thats a clever way.
Thank you for sharing!

I saw somewhere that an avatar's key can change, though I've never seen it happen with my own. Is that true?

That would be disastrous if it happened, everything about your avatar is tied to that and you would lose all your stuff. A handful of avatars have had their names changed over the years and even they have the same keys.

no key changes in avatars. you might be thinking about the IM to email key (which doesn't match the av's and does change).

while external queries as to creator of a prim can sometimes be slow (returning null key or hippos depending on where it's being seen) I've never heard of it happening with get creator, so you should be safe

Yeah. It's been interesting to note many changes to Linden account names, though I won't name names. Noticed through maintenance of a private key-name database.

Personally, I had mine changed. It took like, a matter of minutes..so it's done in an underlying properties layer to which non-lindens don't have access, which isn't surprising. Still, my key is the same as it was the day I created my account, that's one of the first things I checked lol.