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Re: License - again
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Wed, 13 Dec 2000 13:24:22 GMT
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Frank Filz wrote:
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> Again, care needs to be taken here. If the program is a program which
> converts the library itself, requiring it to be liberally licensed may
> be reasonable. A conversion program which just converts a LDraw .DAT to
> a new format which will use a different library is a different ball of
> wax, we don't want to kill the possibility of converters between
> commercial programs with proprietary (and potentially patented or
> otherwise protected in some way preventing fan creation of the
> converter) file formats and LDraw.
Agreed. I meant converting the library, not converting a model created
with the library. Remember, we can always add a line saying "If you need
the library released under a different license, write to ask
permission".
> With some of those thoughts in mind, what the LDraw library license
> should cover is distribution and inclusion of the library itself. I'm
> not sure how much can be done to protect the library from being
> converted (and note that a tool which renders an LDraw model into say
> POV-RAY is effectively converting the library).
Yes, maybe requiring the source code for conversion programs is not a
good idea, adding something like this would require L2P/L3P to have
their source available and it seems that the authors don't want this.
Maybe requiring the source code for conversion programs only for
commercial applications would solve this ?
Leonardo
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