PT Polocies and FAQ

[Orion Pobursky]

"Big Ben Bricks" (even designed from scratch) could not be included into LDraw Parts Library as Third Party parts, because its manufacturer provides LDraw files itself under copyright (recorded in DAT headers)

You took my general thoughts (not official policy position) and then applied them to this specific case as policy. Don't do that.

Reinhard "Ben" Beneke is a confirmed LDraw Author with a history of working with the LDraw project in the early days. Based on this the BBB bricks in the library are fine. In fact, BBB is the prime reason we allowed third party parts.

Fx Bricks I addressed on the PT.

There should be more clear policy on Third Party allowed cases.

As you can see from the above 2 cases there always some nuance to an issue. I'm not writing an iron clad policy covering every possible edge case. It would make the document huge and it's a fools errand.

Bottom line: I feel the general policy regarding part sources/third party parts is clear and any questions will be answered by the admin team with community input (if needed).