On Mar 22, 2012, at 1:32 PM, Martin wrote: > I would highly recommend to avoid any copyright notices at all. Kicad is > OpenSource and all contributors working in the best meaning of the OpenSource > ideas. Introduction of copyright in any form may have fatal impact to the > future of this wonderful software.
GPL works because of copyright. > Stop this thread, please! Ostrich Politics is not the solution. Avoiding license problems on libraries may be best tackled with a Creative Commons alike license, but I am not a lawyer. In fact, if the main developers agree, next time we add a symbol/footprint/part/documentation we could provide it under Creative Commons. /Martijn > > Martin > > Dne 22.3.2012 12:38, Opendous Support napsal(a): >>>>> Footprints are not subject to copyright either. >>>>> They are not creative: ... they are simple data >>>>> gathered from JEDEC, IPC and manufacturer sources. >> >> Copyright is designed to protect the "original expression of ideas, >> and not the ideas themselves". For example, if you take a photograph >> of the insides of your computer you are automatically the Copyright >> owner of the photograph. Your original expression is the overexposed >> and blurry image. In the same way that JEDEC/IPC/manufacturers own >> the Copyrights on the datasheets/specifications they produce, you own >> the specification (schematic and layout files) you produce of your >> design. >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright#Idea-expression_dichotomy_and_the_merger_doctrine >> >> Everything but the actual circuit connection ideas can be >> Copyrighted since "copy[right] covers only the expression of the >> definition, not the circuit itself". In other words, someone can redo >> your work and create something nearly identical and they will be the >> Copyright owners of that work. >> http://features.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=1999-06-22-005-05-NW-LF >> http://www.armisteadtechnologies.com/copy-pcb.shtml >> http://freedomdefined.org/OSHW >> >>>> I can be wrong, but, anything that's been designed >>>> by an author, has authorship, and it makes it have copyright. >> >> That is the most sensible attitude. >> >>> It's not worth worrying about: really. >> >> Why risk it. Anything that can lead to FUD from others and dissuade >> use of KiCad should be avoided. I would be willing to donate all my >> library work into the Public Domain under, for example, the Creative >> Commons Public Domain Dedication: >> http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ >> >> If the original authors of library elements cannot be contacted >> simply ask users of the KiCad mailing list to recreate schematic >> symbols and module footprints. I'm sure many users would be willing >> to help out and contribute. As noted earlier, it is the expression of >> an idea that is Copyrightable so it is mostly a simple matter of >> redoing the work. >> >> -Matt >> >> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 4:28 AM, Brian F. G. Bidulock >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Miguel, >>> >>> On Thu, 22 Mar 2012, Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo wrote: >>> >>>> I can be wrong, but, anything that's been designed by an author, has >>>> authorship, and it makes it have copyright. >>> >>> Sorry, it doesn't work that way. >>> >>> --brian >>> >>> -- >>> Brian F. G. Bidulock ¦ The reasonable man adapts himself to the ¦ >>> [email protected] ¦ world; the unreasonable one persists in ¦ >>> http://www.openss7.org/ ¦ trying to adapt the world to himself. ¦ >>> ¦ Therefore all progress depends on the ¦ >>> ¦ unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw ¦ >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>> Post to : [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
