Thank you for your reply the skin isn't that great, and will probably look like crap applying it to a mesh body, but i was going to see what it looked like anyways and modify it or at least try.. After reading the helpful link you provided, I believe it's not a linden skin none the less. Thank you for the information. guess i will go searching. Personally I like old system AVi's and their components and skins. less the terribly designed feet . The system AVI's deform less than more modern mesh bodies in poses and such, and If you do not zoom in to a extremely close view (the squared blocky look) they surpass the modern mesh and i never zoom in that close for it serves me no purpose. I would say the purpose of my converting such a "terrible" skin as you described it, is to modify it thus making it a not "terrible" skin.
Also now that I pondered the subject of this copying in it's entirety, It is fully probable that the early skins of skin manufacturers could have and in all probability utilized, thus using LL original skins as a base to create their skins, which would make them in public domain, thus copy mod. but would not inform any to this fact. This seems the most probable especially in the early years, and even today to some extent, for all in RL or SL is built upon the generations before and none original but the creator which is known by none but felt by all. Change a nipple and hue and crotch and claim it as your own. This is the way of people in RL thus the way of people in SL. In all probability and mathematical insignificant calculation of logic. Thank you for expanding my intellect on the subject. It is much appreciated and the answer with explanation was most satisfying and eye opening. A lesson in the idea of SL's creator perhaps? A community of self expression forming an environment of sharing and building to a goal of togetherness, but thus derailed by capitalistic nepotism and totalitarianistic reflection of society as it seems to be put forth in definition *smiles*
and yes totalitarianistic is a word because i say so and that is how words come to exist. *winks*