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Re: Contributor Agreement License details - updated version
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lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
Date: 
Tue, 6 Feb 2007 00:03:08 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Timothy Gould wrote:
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

Perhaps people would prefer if we changed that paragraph to something like this
in the README

Tim


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LDraw.org is the sole entity responsible for enforcement of the Parts
Library copyrights. LDraw.org does not consider rendered images or LDraw data
files (such as MPDs or LDR files) to be derivative works of the Parts Library.



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  Re: Contributor Agreement License details - updated version
 
(...) I think that is more workable, since it limits the README to addressing the interpretation of terminology in the license, rather than elaborating/modifying the actual license. Steve (17 years ago, 6-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
  Re: Contributor Agreement License details - updated version
 
(...) Wouldn't this include modifying/converting...publishing the dat files themselves (a true derivative work)? (17 years ago, 7-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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  Re: Contributor Agreement License details - updated version
 
(...) Precisely. Tim (17 years ago, 3-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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