On Nov 15, 2007 11:12 AM, Steven Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ...what about 'code' in the form of Gerbers > and etc produced by PCB? Would you consider the resultant board > produced by PCB to fall under a GPL license?
Absolutely and very clearly "no". This is exactly the same as using the gcc compiler. Compiler output is specifically not covered by GPL. Another example is using a GPL's word processor. The papers you write are not GPL'd The test is easy. If your code (or Gerber files) can be distributed independently from the the GPL'd software then they are not GPL'd. The above test is not trivial and could conceivably fail if say PCB embedded a copy of some GPL'd file inside every output file it made. Then the GPL'd inclusion could not be independently distributed . But most developers are not going to do this or if they did the mistake would be pointed out and it would be corrected. (Yes, I've seen this error made and corrected.) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user