RE: LDraw.org allows third party part in the LDraw Parts Library
2017-12-23, 20:33 (This post was last modified: 2017-12-23, 20:34 by Tore Eriksson.)
2017-12-23, 20:33 (This post was last modified: 2017-12-23, 20:34 by Tore Eriksson.)
(2016-10-14, 5:38)Willy Tschager Wrote: Hi,
I was asked if third party means also MB or any on the Communist LEGO list? Just let me clear that we do not open to clones but to bricks manufactured by third parties, who's bricks you might see on AFOL conventions and the builder using those didn't get banned immediately.
That wasn't very clear at all IMO. What makes some parts or brands third party and others clones? Country of origin? Or do the trird parties pay some kind of licence fee to TLG, as opposed to the Chinese? Acceptance on AFOL conventions? As if AFOL conventions is the only measurement of LEGO Canon and Apocrypha, and the voices of vast majority of LEGO fans who cannot afford to attend those conventions don't count? Even if Chinese "Communist" alternatives may be or become much more popular among "non-conventional"
AFOLs with lower incomes?