How I learned to stop worrying and love Ldraw. (Subtitle: questions for programmers)

[Roland Melkert]

-Legally: Can "The Lego Group" prevent me from selling an app I make (provided that I do not use their trademark)? If I want to use the ldraw parts library, what's the recommended way to share it? It seems that, aside from parts/756.dat parts/s/2336s35.dat, I could distribute the zip myself. (Edit: nevermind per #2. I see there's a link for CCAL-compliant parts).

I think this is something the steerco can help you with more, but personally I think the main reason LEGO Group doesn't really care about LDraw is the fact it's free and has a fairly limited user group.

For this reason the recent popping up of paid LDraw software is worrying me somewhat.

But again this is really a steerco issue, and the above is only my own opinion.