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Re: License - again
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Fri, 15 Dec 2000 19:38:51 GMT
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"Fredrik Glöckner" <fredrik.glockner@bio.uio.no> wrote in message
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"John VanZwieten" <john_vanzwieten@email.msn.com> writes:

Any licensing scheme we come up with should make a clear distinction
between a use of the library which relies on the artistic work of the
authors, and one which merely can read and write LDraw format.

It may be worth to note here that the binary format for LeoCAD falls
into the former category.  And as Leonardo Zide has said, James Jessiman
did allow him to redistribute the transformed parts library independent
from the main LDraw distribution.  I don't know if this should be given
any precedence?


It certainly should be given weight in any discussion of LeoCAD, and might
help set precedent.  Was giving credit to LDraw and part authors on your
web site part of your agreement, Leonardo?  Were there any other
stipulations?

-John Van



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(...) My only source of information about this is: (URL) haven't found any of the other 100 places where Leonardo Zide has talked about this. Fredrik (24 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
  Re: License - again
 
(...) James didn't want me to distribute the library in the original format, because he wanted to have the original library available only from his page but after I told him that I was using a modified format he said there were no problems. If you (...) (24 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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(...) It may be worth to note here that the binary format for LeoCAD falls into the former category. And as Leonardo Zide has said, James Jessiman did allow him to redistribute the transformed parts library independent from the main LDraw (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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