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Re: License - again
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Tue, 12 Dec 2000 01:35:55 GMT
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"Leonardo Zide" <leonardo@centroin.com.br> wrote in message
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> John VanZwieten wrote:
> >
> > 1. Derivative works:
> >
> > In a situation where someone uses my parts in an LCad program to • create a
> > model and make pretty pictures of it, I don't want to restrict in any • way
> > their claim to copyrights of those pictures or even the model file (as
> > long as use of that model file needs the parts library to be viewed.)
>
> Someone gave an example about a text that was written with a
> copyrighted font, I think the same principle applies here.
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> > If that person were to distribute their model in a way that the parts
> > library was not needed (for example inlining all the parts) then the
> > information about the authorship of the parts should be included in • such a
> > distribution.
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> In this case the person is redistributing a part of the library, so he
> must comply to the license terms. IANAL.
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> > Any application which transforms the parts library (i.e. LeoCAD, some • VMRL
> > converter, or L3P) should also include information about part • authorship.
> > I know L3P does this nicely, what about LeoCAD?
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> The text on the homepage says that the parts library was created
> mostly by James Jessiman and has a link to his pages. The documentation
> also lists the authors (from the time when I wrote it) but it's really
> outdated, if anyone has a complete list please send it to me and I'll
> update it. If you feel this is not enough, just say what you want to be
> changed and I'll do it, I don't want to take credit for other people's
> work.
The ideal would be to somehow have the author's name associated with the
part, but I seem to recall that LeoCAD lumps all the parts into one file
that can't be read with a text editor. How do you associate a part's
description with the part? Perhaps the author could be associated in a
similar way. I guess it's not a huge issue for me (and I certainly don't
want to cause you unneeded hassle), but just imagine if LeoCAD someday
became the only LCAD program in use--how would someone determine a given
part's author in order to contact them with possible changes?
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> I don't think anyone will ever sell a program using our parts but I
> also don't want to be forced to pay anything to use such program either.
> GPL says that if the library is used in another application then the
> application must also be GPL, so you don't need to worry about it.
Cool. That works for me.
-John Van
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| (...) I'm not absolutely convinced that it's good to require any program which uses the library to be GPLed, but what I am absolutely convinced is that we don't want to restrict a program which uses a proprietary file format and parts library from (...) (24 years ago, 12-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) Someone gave an example about a text that was written with a copyrighted font, I think the same principle applies here. (...) In this case the person is redistributing a part of the library, so he must comply to the license terms. IANAL. (...) (...) (24 years ago, 12-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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