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Re: Parts Library Posted to ldraw.org
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Fri, 12 May 2000 20:42:34 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Bram Lambrecht writes:

> I really think that someone should contact the family about this.

I'm going to do that.

> One
> thing we could do to make sure James is recognized for his efforts is to
> add the correct Author: tags to all the files.  We could also include
> credits in a readme file distributed with the parts.

Terry Keller is working on cleaning up the original LDraw distribution.  He is
adding LCad-style headers to all of the parts and primitives.  They will look
similar to this:

0 Brick  2 x  4
0 Name: 3001.dat
0 Author: James Jessiman
0 Original LDraw Part - LDraw beta 0.27 Archive

Other things Terry's doing:

- taking the *.doc files, and redoing them as .txt and .htm instead.
- adding copyright notices and descriptions for the programs and files in the
distribution.
- adding a LICENSE.TXT file.

> It seems kind of
> silly (IMO) that some of the parts are with the original program while
> the rest are with the "complete" archive.

Yes and no.  From an IP perspective, it makes sense.  From a user perspective,
it doesn't make any sense.

Steve



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(...) I really think that someone should contact the family about this. One thing we could do to make sure James is recognized for his efforts is to add the correct Author: tags to all the files. We could also include credits in a readme file (...) (26 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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