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Re: License revision 1
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Thu, 14 Dec 2000 04:36:40 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Leonardo Zide writes:
> If this library is used with a commercial application then it's use
> and
> redistribution is also subject to the following conditions:
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> 4. All library contributors must be granted a full license to use the
> application for only a nominal fee to cover the physical act of
> transferring a copy of the application.
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> 5. If the library or parts of it are converted to another format then
> the source code of the program used to convert the library must
> also
> be made available.
Seconding Pat Mahoney's questions directed at parts 4 and 5. My own questions:
On part 4:
I understand the main need for the license is: packaging the parts library with
an application for distribution. Question: is the license meant to impose terms
on some uses that do NOT involve redistribution?
What is the precise meaning of 'use' in 'use and redistribution of the library'?
Suppose I go to work for Lightwave and I write a LDRAW import plug-in, and tell
people where to get the parts library. Is that 'use' without redistribution?
Whatever it is, I don't think that is taking value from the parts library.
Does the obligation to provide the commercial software, at cost, cover only the
authors in the version distributed? Suppose a really big application like
Autocad graciously adds LCAD support to their install, and offers licenses to
the current contributors? It would be an interesting incentive for someone to
try and code up some painted minifig torso in order to become a "contributor".
Probably said company would laugh at the idea of these new unchosen obligations.
How can said company verify a contributor's identity, by the way, when someone
writes to ask for their cheap CD?
On part 5:
Do you mean precisely the case where the developer redistributes a converted
form of the library? Maybe the goal is to ensure that either the whole library
is brought over, or users have the ability to do it themselves?
Obviously *some* converted state is involved internally in any program, but I
guess programs which load only files in the LDRAW parts format are not invoking
part 5.
This could be clarified by substituting "distributed in" for "converted to" in
part 5, which would then begin "If the library or parts of it are distributed in
another format..."
-Erik
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| Based on some feedback, here's a revised copy of the license. I hope it addresses more concerns raised here, while keeping it free. Note that paragraph 5 is only for commercial applications, L3P is not subject to it. ---...--- This library is (...) (24 years ago, 13-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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