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Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
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> Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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> > It seems clear to us that there ought to be two licenses.
> > LDraw.org needs to be a conduit or intermediary. That is,
> > there needs to be some distinction between what an author
> > grants Ldraw and what LDraw grants the user rather than it
> > being a straight author to user license.
>
> I can't see the reason for this. Why shouldn't any user of
> the parts files have the same rights as LDraw.org? What
> special permissions does LDraw.org need, which it would be
> problematic to grant to all the users?
I also can't understand the reason for two licenses. With
one license ldraw.org and the community as a whole gain the
same rights to modify/redistribute/buildupon the community
provided library.
The license described in
http://news.lugnet.com/cad/dev/?n=7715
would I think be ideal for the one license required.
It seems to perfectly describe the community development
process of the library, and I heartily recomend it.
It's simple, to the point, and grants people the
rights that they thought they had all along.
On a practical point, each part would need the
authors name, that it's copyright to them and
that it's covered by the license. Here's an
example blob from the top of a file covered
by another license.
/*
Calisto - An internet Talker
Copyright (C) 1998-2001 Peter Howkins, Matthew Howkins and Simon Howkins
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
*/
I'm sure something shorter could be written to the same effect :)
eg
/*
Copyright (C) 1998-2001 Brian Tanktop and George Periwinkle
This program is licensed under the terms of Ldraw License
*/
Peter
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