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Tim Courtney wrote:
> Do you have thoughts on how to deal with parts whose
> authors have been out of touch, and are unreachable?
The initial step is to transfer these parts file to a
special pool which continues to be distributed under the
existing (but rather muddy) conditions that the parts
library until now has been distributed under.
Second, somebody (responsible within LDraw.org) has to think
hard if they can argue that it is okay to change the license
for these parts or if they beleive that the original author
would accept - and finally if it is worth taking the risk
for that file.
Those parts files it isn't worth taking the risk for,
somebody will have to reimplement from scratch.
Simple parts files, where there is no "artistic" element
(personal judgement) involved in the production, are not
necessarily covered by copyright as individual parts files,
so I might take the chance there (it should on the other
hand also be trivial to generate these parts files from
scratch - and who would be able to see the difference).
> Any idea how many parts that affects, if say, we can't
> reach them and get them to agree to the license?
Unfortunately not. But why doesn't somebody try to find
out?
Jacob
--
"It is very easy to get ridiculously confused about the
tenses of time travel, but most things can be resolved
by a sufficiently large ego."
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| (...) Do you have thoughts on how to deal with parts whose authors have been out of touch, and are unreachable? Any idea how many parts that affects, if say, we can't reach them and get them to agree to the license? -Tim (21 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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