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Re: License Intent
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Date: 
Wed, 9 Jun 2004 07:28:24 GMT
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Tim Courtney wrote:

The spirit of what I'm trying to get at is this: if
someone wants to read LDraw into a proprietary format,
shouldn't they also write LDraw?

I can appreciate the idea, but I doubt that you will be able
to enforce that through a license for the parts library.

Also, it is not always possible to implement a two-way
converter between a pair of formats.

Jacob
--
"In space, no-one can press CTRL-ALT-DEL"
                                        -- An Ada programmer



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  Re: License Intent
 
(...) The spirit of what I'm trying to get at is this: if someone wants to read LDraw into a proprietary format, shouldn't they also write LDraw? Taking an open format and importing it into a closed format, without a way to write back to the open (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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