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Re: Moving the License Forward
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lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
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Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:34:34 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> Dan Boger wrote:
> > Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
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> > > Jacob (who doesn't think he'll accept the redistribution agreement)
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> > Jacob - I think you understand these things a lot better
> > than me. Could you explain your thoughts?
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> I haven't thought it properly through yet, but I would like
> to have some assurance that either the basic characteristics
> of the license will remain unchanged (for example through a
> fixed "human readable" version of the license)
That's hard to put into legalese, I fear, but I agree that's an important
concept. I think we all agree once we have this fixed there won't be, and won't
need to be, change at the macro level. How WOULD we go about codifying that
idea?
> or that I as
> an individual parts author can block "my" parts from having
> the license changed.
I'm not so sure I'm in favor of that as it seems hard to administer and achieve.
What parts are "your" parts? Parts you were the sole author of? Last author?
First Author? Bulk of the work? This is a collaborative effort.
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> Also, it is not clear from the redistribution agreement that
> the parts authors' names will remain in the parts files
> (even though I assume it is the intent).
I think it's the intent. One thing we've not completely resolved is how to track
ownership completely. Post Parts Tracker the data is there. But do we want to
carry, in the part, a trace of every single time the file was touched? I think
it might be useful info, but it might be hard to retrofit in, and may make some
parts a bit longer. If we could figure out how to do it easily I am not against
it.
> But maybe I should just join the beer-ware crowd and not
> worry so much.
No. Reasoned concerns are good things to bring up.
Although what is the beer-ware crowd? I like beer. Do you have a URL?
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| (...) Wouldn't putting something in the CA, with the whole section explaining how the license can be changed in the future, something like this: While the library's license can be changed in the future using this procedure, any new license will have (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| (...) I haven't thought it properly through yet, but I would like to have some assurance that either the basic characteristics of the license will remain unchanged (for example through a fixed "human readable" version of the license) or that I as an (...) (20 years ago, 12-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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