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Re: Contributor Agreement License details
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lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
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Thu, 18 Jan 2007 02:33:15 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Kelly McKiernan wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Travis Cobbs wrote:
> > In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Timothy Gould wrote:
> > > Good point. Perhaps an additional comment like:
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> > > In order to avoid the listing of all contributing part authors it is sufficient
> > > to give credit to "the LDraw Parts Library" in Derivative Works in lieu of such
> > > a list.
> > >
> > > As an addition to the end of the licence?
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> > Maybe it's just me, but if renderings are considered derivative works, we need
> > to seriously step back and think long and hard about whether or not we are OK
> > with that. I personally think that forcing renderings to have text on them
> > acknowledging that the parts came from the LDraw Parts Library is a serious
> > restriction, and very different from how things are now. My understanding was
> > that the intent in switching to the CA license was to force people who
> > distributed the actual part files to be bound by it, NOT for people doing
> > renderings. Am I mistaken that this was the original intent?
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> I agree, clarification on rendered images is needed. If a rendering using LDraw
> parts is a derivative work, and derivative works are required to visibly display
> credit, that's a problem. It won't show up on my renders; I don't burn "Credit:
> Photoshop Dev Team" on images I make with Photoshop, there's no reason to put it
> into LDraw-derived images.
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> - Kelly
As one of the CA's authors, my view on this is that you should state somewhere
in your distribution of the image (i.e. on the web page hosting it, as a text
file in a .zip, on the image itself, etc...) that the content were derived from
the LDraw Official Library and detail can be found at LDraw.org.
Note that the above is my opinion only and not the official position of
LDraw.org since I am not a SteerCo member and cannot set policy.
-Orion
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| (...) In publishing, that type of info is usually contained in a colophon, the use of which is sadly fading from popularity. Some few web sites include this level of detail in their "About" section. I agree it would be nice to see attribution in (...) (18 years ago, 18-Jan-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| (...) I agree, clarification on rendered images is needed. If a rendering using LDraw parts is a derivative work, and derivative works are required to visibly display credit, that's a problem. It won't show up on my renders; I don't burn "Credit: (...) (18 years ago, 18-Jan-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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