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Re: Contributer Agreement v2
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lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
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Fri, 16 Jul 2004 15:10:57 GMT
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Here is my take on this second version of the license
Peter
Orion Pobursky wrote:
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> Here's the CA v2. If you have criticism, please also offer a proposed solution.
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> Summary of changes:
> - Added a 33% majority for passage instead of a simple majority
> - A general reordering and rewording of the entire document.
And you've changed the first EndUser license from Creative Commons
Share Alike License [1] to Creative Commons Attribute License [2]
I presume this was because of the ShareAlike license preventing
EndUsers who make modifications being able to submit them
to ldraw.org under the Contributor agreement.
"you may distribute the resulting work only under a license
identical to this one", Share Alike license.
[1] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/sa/2.0/
[2] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
> The LDraw.org Steering Committee
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> *-*-*-*-*-*
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> By submitting parts to LDraw.org, the part author (from here forward the
> "Author,") agrees to the following terms.
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> By submitting parts to the LDraw.org, the Author agrees to grant LDraw.org
> the non-exclusive right, at no charge, to distribute said parts in
> perpetuity, to the public, under the Creative Commons Attribution License.
> LDraw.org is under no obligation accept the submitted work and, if accepted,
> may suspend distribution for any length of time as it sees fit.
I'm not sure that you need this paragraph at all. Unless you've
obligated yourself elsewhere in the license, which it doesn't look like.
> By submitting parts to LDraw.org, the Author grants permission to other
> authors to create derivative works of their submission for the purposes of
> creating additional parts to submit to the library.
This gets a bit complicated, couldn't you count other authors as using
the 'EndUser' license, and therefore because that license lets them
submit work back to ldraw.org, maybe you can get away with dropping
that paragraph?
> If in the future, LDraw.org leadership deems it necessary to change the
> license the Parts Library is distributed under, the Author agrees to the
> following process for securing permission to make the change.
An attempt at some language for a 'base level of rights' as suggested
by Jacob Sparre Anderson and Dan Boger.
"Any future EndUser license proposed by ldraw.org will grant at least
these rights to EndUsers.
1) The EndUser has the right to modify licensed work and base
new works on it.
2) The EndUser has the right to distribute work covered by the
license to other people.
3) The EndUser is allowed to submit derived work back to ldraw.org
under the terms of the Contributor agreement."
> Authors will be contacted and asked to respond to the request using any of
> the four available responses:
"Authors will be contacted and asked to respond to the request using one of
the three available responses:"
Only let them pick one of the answers :)
> - Approval.
> - Rejection.
> - Abstain.
> - No response.
Remove the "No repsonse" response, it's a bit confusing.
> All reasonable attempts to contact the author will be deemed made when there
> are public announcements posted on LDraw.org and LUGNET (where LUGNET is the
> primary location of LDraw.org-related public discussion), and an email
> message is sent to the author using the address on record.
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> The vote will be tallied after the 60 day period has expired. A "no
> response" will not count towards the total for which a majority will be
> measured; however, a "no response" indicates that the author will authorize
> his/her submissions under the new license terms, if adopted. A majority
> will be deemed reached if the number of approval votes is:
Slight tweak to language because I just dropped previous references to
"no response".
"The vote will be tallied after the 60 day period has expired.
A non responding author will authorize his/her submissions under the
new license terms, if adopted. A majority will be deemed reached if
the number of approval votes is:"
> - Greater than the number of rejection votes
> - At least 33% of the total vote (approval, rejection, and abstain).
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> The license change procedure is intended as an assurance to the user that
> parts will not disappear from the library in the future unless there are
> technical reasons to do so, protecting their investment of time spent
> creating and sharing virtual models using the parts.
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