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Re: Moving the License Forward
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lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
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Tue, 13 Jul 2004 13:08:21 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Peter Howkins wrote:
> Chris Dee wrote:
> > Speaking personally [1]:
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> Understood.
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> > For the initial CA we should contact everyone who's got Submit
> > rights, plus anyone named in a Name: line for whom we have contact
> > details. New users should be asked to accept the CA as part of them
> > getting Submit rights.
> >
> > For future changes, I would only consider "authors" as those who
> > have contributed content (original parts and modifications to
> > previously issued parts) to the then current official parts library.
> > This would exclude those who signed up but never got around to
> > submitting anything and those whose work had not yet contributed
> > to the official library.
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> That seems a little harsh to an author under this kind of situation ...
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> 1) Person A submits part to parts tracker, agrees to CA.
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> 2) Part has small issue with it preventing it from being approved quickly
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> 3) Ldraw SteerCo changes End User license agreement from 1 to 2. Even though
> Person A hates license 2, they have no voting power to argue against it.
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> 4) Person B fixes Person As part
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> 5) Part is approved and enters official library distributed under End
> User license 2. Person A is understandably upset.
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> I'd think that under your method, all people that have submitted
> content under the terms of the CA should have a right to vote
> on any change to the End User license. After all they could all
> be affected by it's changes regardless of whether their work is
> in the official library yet.
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> Peter
OK - this is a timing thing - we can fine tune the qualification criteria. What
I was trying avoid was people who have expressed a desire to author parts, yet
never got around to doing so, having a strong influence in the distribution
license. For example, Person X wants to do somethine unconventional with the
LDraw library, so he and a whole bunch of him chums sign up as part authors
because they object to the current distribution license, but with no intention
of ever making a part. They lobby hard to get the license changed and are then
able to carry the vote in their favour.
I think we are all paying too much attention to the fact that the license
_might_ be changed, rather than focusing on getting it as right as possible now.
Chris
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| (...) Understood. (...) That seems a little harsh to an author under this kind of situation ... 1) Person A submits part to parts tracker, agrees to CA. 2) Part has small issue with it preventing it from being approved quickly 3) Ldraw SteerCo (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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