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Re: License questions
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Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:45:59 GMT
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Lars C. Hassing wrote:
In lugnet.cad.dev, Travis Cobbs wrote:
I don't know about an official answer, but it's worth considering that L3P has
been providing POV exports of LDraw models for over 9 years now, and as far as I
know, nobody has complained.

That's right.

L3P also passes comment lines (line type 0) on to the POV code,
but there's currently no disclaimer at the top.

The coming release has this line at the top:
   // LDraw.org:    http://www.ldraw.org
/Lars

I also think it should be enough to place a disclaimer and preserve
(part of) the comments to identify and credit the original authors.

But with all the commotion around the license (library is on hold for
years etc) It would be nice to have an official guideline for this kind
of usage of the library.



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  Re: License questions
 
(...) Strictly speaking you should include each part author's names and information about the license in the POV file. I believe that is part of the conditions in the license for each part. That said I doubt anyone will be enforcing the policy for (...) (16 years ago, 29-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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(...) That's right. L3P also passes comment lines (line type 0) on to the POV code, but there's currently no disclaimer at the top. The coming release has this line at the top: // LDraw.org: (URL) (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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