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Subject:	Re: Contributor Agreement License details - updated version
Newsgroups:	lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
Date:	Sat, 3 Feb 2007 10:49:41 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Dean Earley wrote: > Willy Tschager wrote: > > LDraw.org is the sole entity responsible for enforcement of the Parts > > Library copyrights. It is the LDraw Steering Committee's (SteerCo's) > > policy to enforce the copyright only for commercial usage of the LDraw > > Parts Library in Derivative Works such as models and renderings. If you > > are unsure if your Derivative Works fall under this category please > > contact LDraw.org. > > So, basically, the licence means you need to credit LDraw whenever you > render/create a model from it, but SteerCo aren't bothered unless its > for commercial use? Precisely. Tim

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		Re: Contributor Agreement License details - updated version
(...) Wow! In my opinion, that's an extremely poor interpretation of "derivative works". Consider the model file. It most likely contains no actual bits of the LDRAW library. It simply contains references to the parts in the library, by names like (...) (18 years ago, 5-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

		Re: Contributor Agreement License details - updated version
(...) Apparently with all the legal posturing going on here, people missed this. Seems to me there's no need to fret about anything. Use the tools as you always have and nothing bad will happen. Play on. Allister (18 years ago, 5-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

		Re: Contributor Agreement License details - updated version
(...) Perhaps people would prefer if we changed that paragraph to something like this in the README Tim ---- LDraw.org is the sole entity responsible for enforcement of the Parts Library copyrights. LDraw.org does not consider rendered images or (...) (18 years ago, 6-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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		Re: Contributor Agreement License details - updated version
(...) So, basically, the licence means you need to credit LDraw whenever you render/create a model from it, but SteerCo aren't bothered unless its for commercial use? (18 years ago, 2-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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