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Re: More information on LEGO Digital Designer and other things
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lugnet.cad, lugnet.lego.direct
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Mon, 5 May 2003 21:50:27 GMT
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> > > I hope to be able to release the source code to these DLLs, but haven't
> > > gotten final approval for that yet.
> >
> > Do you think it'll be released under GPL or a license like Perl's, or would
> > it be a special LEGO license? (Just curious...I don't think it matters to
> > much from a practical standpoint.)
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> Since I am not totally familar with those examples, I can't speak to this
> directly. I will say that is likely to be something similar to an GPL, but
> with certain "LEGO" issues, which in your example probably means it will be
> a special LEGO license. Again, not sure quite yet. This is all part of the
> legal issues currently underway.
If this license is still not yet determined, I STRONGLY urge you to
make sure your lawyers are famailiar with the Debian Free Software
Guidelines. They are oriented towards a particular Linux distribution
but are generally accepted to be a good definition of Open Source.
http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html#guidelines
Another good guideline to use is the "Open Source Definition":
http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php
Please pass those links on to your lawyers. If your license follows
these guidelines you are pretty much guaranteed to have a lot of happy
geeks praising your name (and probably get some good press on Slashdot
too).
--Bill.
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William R Ward bill@wards.net http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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