RE: Generatable primitives
2023-11-02, 16:25 (This post was last modified: 2023-11-02, 17:29 by Orion Pobursky.)
2023-11-02, 16:25 (This post was last modified: 2023-11-02, 17:29 by Orion Pobursky.)
I thought I already replied but apparently not...
As always, most of these types of posts are "shower thoughts" intended to spark conversation and not fully formed policy ready to be implemented.
Here's my thought process:
- Primitives are essential and inseparable from the library.
- The license that is used by them need to be as permissive as possible
- Machine generated code is not copyrightable
- Therefore, I'm not sure the CC licenses apply to machine generated primitives.
There are a few options here:
1. Do nothing. Regenerate those primitives that need to be if the license changes. This is the easiest in the short term but will cause significant work in the long term
2. Change the license for machine generated primitives to public domain. Retain the original author line. This is more time consuming than doing nothing (and really only for me) but will result in less churn later on.
3. Similar to 2 but also have LDraw.org be the author to avoid any misunderstanding (I'm not super fond of this option).
As always, most of these types of posts are "shower thoughts" intended to spark conversation and not fully formed policy ready to be implemented.
Here's my thought process:
- Primitives are essential and inseparable from the library.
- The license that is used by them need to be as permissive as possible
- Machine generated code is not copyrightable
- Therefore, I'm not sure the CC licenses apply to machine generated primitives.
There are a few options here:
1. Do nothing. Regenerate those primitives that need to be if the license changes. This is the easiest in the short term but will cause significant work in the long term
2. Change the license for machine generated primitives to public domain. Retain the original author line. This is more time consuming than doing nothing (and really only for me) but will result in less churn later on.
3. Similar to 2 but also have LDraw.org be the author to avoid any misunderstanding (I'm not super fond of this option).