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Re: Parts Releases and the CA
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lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
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Sun, 10 Sep 2006 12:13:58 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Thomas Garrison wrote:
> In lugnet.cad, Timothy Gould wrote:
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> > About two years ago LDraw.org decided to move to a new license scheme
> > (the Contributors Agreement) for the parts library. This new system has
> > numerous advantages, perhaps most importantly the fact that most parts
> > will now be distributable without having to include Complete.exe
> > and ldraw027.exe (a problem for many new users) and can be included
> > with other software without a separate parts installation.
> >
> > It has been a huge undertaking tracking down old part authors and asking
> > them to agree to these new terms and a lot of people have put a huge
> > amount of work into making this happen. The process is slowly reaching a
> > conclusion now with the number of authors[1] (and parts by those authors)
> > nearing zero. Once these authors have been tracked down (or their parts
> > replaced by new versions) the entire library will be under the new
> > agreement which allows for consistency in future releases and allows
> > their release rate to be increased again.
>
> I may have missed this, but has LDraw.org released a list of the parts that need
> to be replaced? I would think that making such a list available and encouraging
> part authors to focus their efforts on those parts first would speed things up
> and reduce the number of parts that will need to be removed for a CA-compliant
> library to be released.
>
> TWS Garrison
chris is working on the list. stay tuned.
w.
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| (...) Here is the list of files in the official library, whose original author has not affirmed the CA. I have not reviewed all of these for comments that indicate they might already have had a complete re-write. Some files are already on the Parts (...) (18 years ago, 11-Sep-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Parts Releases and the CA
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| (...) I may have missed this, but has LDraw.org released a list of the parts that need to be replaced? I would think that making such a list available and encouraging part authors to focus their efforts on those parts first would speed things up and (...) (18 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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