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Re: Parts for LDraw or parts for POV-Ray?
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Sat, 14 Aug 1999 21:53:21 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Leonardo Zide <leonardo@centroin.com.br> writes:
> Todd Lehman wrote:
> > What was the rationale motivating the hammer on BriCad?
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> TLG sent the author a letter saying that they had the copyrights over
> the bricks/studs and if he didn't remove his pages he would be sued. The
> author got so disappointed that he left the net.
Did Carsten ever post a copy of the letter or anything like that? Anyone
know what year/month this was? How about what country he lived in at the
time? Very odd... Obviously (er, apparently) TLG has lightened up
considerably since then.
--Todd
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Parts for LDraw or parts for POV-Ray?
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| (...) IIRC (this would be from e-mail he sent me that I almost certainly no longer have, and is stuff I know because I was making an attempt to port it to a Windows version): - It was LEGO Germany - The dispute was over TLG's rights to "studded (...) (25 years ago, 15-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
| | | Re: Parts for LDraw or parts for POV-Ray?
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| (...) I don't think TLG has changed much since then. I also think TLG was blowing some smoke, and Carsten gave up too easily. I'm pretty sure Carsten could have made some cosmetic changes to satisfy TLG. Steve (25 years ago, 15-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts for LDraw or parts for POV-Ray?
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| (...) TLG sent the author a letter saying that they had the copyrights over the bricks/studs and if he didn't remove his pages he would be sued. The author got so disappointed that he left the net. Leonardo (25 years ago, 14-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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