On 5/19/09, Stuart Brorson <s...@cloud9.net> wrote: > The licensing issue for footprints gets rehashed repeatedly on this > list.
Sorry. > Accordingly, we put the following note on the gEDA website some > time ago: > http://www.gpleda.org/license.html For gEDA symbols it is not so critical, they can be referenced rather than embedded, and in this case their GPLness does not affect the schematics; historically, PCB has no such option. > The text talks about symbols, but I believe the developers agree that > if you substitute the word symbol -> footprint, then you will have the > gEDA Project's policy regarding licensing of footprints. So do I; but I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to find any stronger confirmation for the footprints coming with PCB. > I suppose at some point we should put a similar text on the PCB > website. I think it would be nice to document it e.g. in README files of the distributions; the logical link between the contents of the website and the particular archive is not that hard. Thanks, Ineiev _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user