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Re: Proposed changes to MOTM Submission guidelines
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Date: 
Mon, 5 Jan 2004 15:31:39 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Tim Courtney wrote:
In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Orion Pobursky wrote:
In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Dan Boger wrote:
If someone chooses not to participate in the contest because they
can't/won't release the DAT, what's the loss for LDraw?

The loss is the chance for us to see the creative effort of another and possibly
be inspired by it.  The fact that this has become the central issue  of my
proposed changes flabbergasts me.  It takes absolutly no effort on our part to
honor an author's desire to keep the source private.

Agreed.

-Tim

Let's please make this explicitly clear: It is then all right to use the contest
as a means to advertise a commercial model or a commercial product based on the
model? This is a glaring pitfall if sources are not requested. I thought it
would be inelegant and immoral to submit the models I authored for, say, the
Dark Side Creatures book published by Syngress (which the contest audience would
have to buy if they wanted to get the step-by-step instructions). Please correct
me if that is not the case, because I still think it is.

Cheers



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  Re: Proposed changes to MOTM Submission guidelines
 
(...) If the model has commercial ties before or during the contest then I might (note the word might) have a problem with the submission. In my opinion, the reasoning behind an author's decision to keep the source private is irrelevent and not the (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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(...) Agreed. -Tim (21 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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