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(...) The files James published are copyrighted, and his family has control on the copyright. They have given 'us', the L-CAD group, permission to continue to publish and maintain his work. The additional parts, as Jacob said, are copyrighted by (...) (25 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I agree with this statement, but I was hoping that we could have this stated in a more formal way somewhere. I find this very important as people spend hundreds of hours of work on the parts which are donated to the LDraw community. (...) I (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I'm not so keen on seeing the parts GPLed as I don't want to be in the business of handling requests for the parts library if I give someone some instructions that were made using them. Be very careful before you GPL something, it conveys specific (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) The clause in the GPL refers to "source code" i.e. something which can be compiled into an executable program. -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Good point. I haven't read the GPL lately, and I have a bad memory for license details. Steve (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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* Jonathan Wilson (wilsonj@xoommail.com) [991118 10:09]: (...) GPL refers to source code and binaries, and the fact that shipping a binary only won't let you fix problems your self (RMS has a story about a #$*#$& printer that, if they had the driver (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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The Doctor What <docwhat@gerf.org> writes: [ snipped the Gnu Manual License ] (...) This is probably quite similar to the X11 License I posted in my previous post, and I think something like that would suffice for the parts library. Fredrik (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Jonathan Wilson: (...) In our case the source code is files in LDraw format, and the "executable programs" are derivations such as POV-Ray files, raytraces, and LDraw output in general. Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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