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Re: License Intent
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lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
Date: 
Sun, 13 Jun 2004 12:54:48 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> Just for the record: IANAL
> Mine.  LDraw files are source code (at least according to
> the definition in the LGPL).  And unless you consider
> rendering a specific kind of compilation, LGPL would not
> allow you to do anything useful with a parts library covered
> by it.  Since the parts library is "linked" statically into
> the renderings, and cannot be substituted after the
> rendering has been made, the clause cited above takes
> effect.


I don't know.  I think when something is statically linked you
can recover the original code with a disassembler.  It's really
still there in a different form.  There's no way to disassemble
a picture into the ldraw code without using the ldraw code itself,
and that would be cheating.  Therefore it's a product of the ldraw
code, just like a calculation is the product of a mathlib.

For the record.  IANL either.

Enjoy,

Don



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  Re: License Intent
 
Just for the record: IANAL (...) Mine. LDraw files are source code (at least according to the definition in the LGPL). And unless you consider rendering a specific kind of compilation, LGPL would not allow you to do anything useful with a parts (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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