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PARTS LIBRARY LICENSE
CAreadme.txt
===Introduction===
The following is the CREATIVE COMMONS PUBLIC LICENSE for the LDraw Parts Library licensed
under the LDraw Contributor Agreement (CA). Parts which fall under this license will contain
the following line in their headers.
0 !LICENSE Redistributable under CCAL version 2.0 : see CAreadme.txt
However this text is not a license! It is simply a handy reference for understanding the
Legal Code (the full license), which can be found in the CAlicense.txt file — it is a
human-readable expression of some key terms. Think of it as the user-friendly interface to
the Legal Code beneath. This text itself has no legal value, and its contents do not appear
in the actual licence. For a deeper insight please visit: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
1. Rights
You are free:
* to copy, distribute, display, and use the CA approved LDraw Parts Library
* to make derivative works
* to make commercial use of the CA approved LDraw Parts Library
Under the following conditions:
2. Attribution.
You must give the original author credit.
* For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the licence terms of this
library.
* Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder.
The SteerCo also holds an attribution to 'The LDraw Parts Library' in such Derivative Works to
be sufficient in lieu of a full list of authors.
Your fair use and other rights are in no way affected by the above.
3. Enforcements
LDraw.org is the sole entity responsible for enforcement of the Parts Library copyrights. For
purposes of enforcement LDraw.org considers the following a good rule of thumb to determine if
a new file is not a Derivative work. Anything else should be considered at risk of being a
Derivative work and an attribution is required. If in doubt contact the current LDraw SteerCo.
What is not considered a Derivative work?
* Rendered images generated from the LDraw library. Rendering here covers any conversion
of a 3D model file into a 2D image.
* Model files containing references only (the source code for the part may NOT be included
in any form) to parts in the official LDraw Parts Library at the time of their creation. Part
files which are marked as unofficial at the time of creation may be included in full in the
model file. If the sole or main purpose (as determined by the LDraw SteerCo in consultation
with the potentially offending author and LDraw community at large) of the Model file is
to include large numbers of unofficial parts then it WILL be considered a derivative work.
* Alternate libraries of parts which LDraw.org does not own or enforce the copyright. If
some or more of the parts in the library are converted from the LDraw Parts Library then
they must be considered a Derivative work.