LDraw guideline: Procedure for quitting Part Authorship

[Willy Tschager]

Hi,

in prospect of the recent events the LDraw Steering Committee (SteerCo) has elaborated a guideline for those authors who wanna quit their PT authorship:

1. The Part Author (PA) wishing to quit should submit their intention to the Part Tracker Administration (PTAdmin) in writing via email to <parts-AT-ldraw.org>.
   
2. Following this, access rights to the Part Tracker (PT) will be removed in a timely fashion.
   
3. The PTAdmin will keep a record of the signed Contributor Agreement (CA) of the person quitting.
   
4. As the quitting PA's parts (the parts) were submitted under the terms of the CA, and thus the "copyleft" Creative Commons license, all parts submitted up to that point will be left where they are, whether that be as part of the published library, or in some state on the PT.
   
5. No changes will be made to the parts that would undermine the existing terms of the CA and associated license.
   
6. All the parts remaining on the PT will be immediately considered open for editing by anyone, under the usual provisions of the CA and associated license. Any existing reviews will be left as is.
   
7. If the PA wishes to reattain part authorship, they must apply as a new author, including signing a new CA.
   

Willy Tschager
On behalf of the LDraw Steering Committee