Thanks.
This will certainly clear a lot of confusion.

Regards,
Martijn
On Jul 2, 2013, at 1:26 PM, Oscad Team <oscad.t...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi
> 
> Could you have a look at our homepage oscad.in ? We have added links to KiCad 
> and elaborated on the features.
> Let us know your feedback.
> 
> Regards
> Oscad Team
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 1:53 AM, Martijn Kuipers <martijn.kuip...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Jul 1, 2013, at 7:25 PM, Oscad Team <oscad.t...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hello Dick, Martijn, Edwin
>> 
>> We have not modified/bug-fixed/enhanced the KiCad source code. We have only 
>> used the binary version (installable through Ubuntu package manager for 
>> Ubuntu and the .exe file for Windows available on the KiCad webpg). We are 
>> using KiCad as the schematic editor and layout editor tool in Oscad. We 
>> mention that in our documents as well. In fact, in our tutorial series, we 
>> have made 4 tutorials on KiCad. We refer to them in our Oscad tutorial for 
>> the users to know more about schematic creation and PCB design. We have 3 
>> tutorials on Oscad. All these tutorials are available on our webpage 
>> oscad.in .
>>  We only call eeschema, pcbnew and cvpcb using a script and launch them. All 
>> our scripts are available on the webpage. Requesting you to kindly check the 
>> same.
>> 
>> Kindly let us know of any issues/concerns/feedback.
> 
> Thanks for the clarification. Like I said in my email, it was not clear to me 
> and I couldn't find it on your website. Please forgive me for not looking at 
> all the tutorials. I did not even find a weblink to the KiCad site.
> 
> Perhaps you could better explain this on your site ? Anyway, if you ever hunt 
> down some bugs, please send them back to KiCad-dev list.
> 
> Sincerely yours,
> Martijn
> 
>> 
>> Thanks and regards
>> Rakhi
>> Oscad Team
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Dick Hollenbeck <d...@softplc.com> wrote:
>> On 07/01/2013 07:31 AM, Edwin van den Oetelaar wrote:
>> > On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Martijn Kuipers <martijn.kuip...@gmail.com
>> > <mailto:martijn.kuip...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     Just wondering if you (the OSCAD team) made any changes to KiCAD. I 
>> > went to your site,
>> >     but was unable to find any source code to do a comparison.
>> >
>> >     So, my question is: did you do any enhancement/bug-fixing/changed to 
>> > KiCAD code ?
>> >
>> >     Were any of "our" main debs aware of OSCAD launching? It seemed to me 
>> > to come out of
>> >     the blue...
>> >
>> >     Kind regards,
>> >     Martijn
>> >
>> >
>> > I have never heard of this.
>> > Furthermore, no source code, not even a link to the KiCAD sources on the 
>> > website.
>> > Looks like somebody made a closed binary installer/distribution and forgot 
>> > who is doing
>> > most of the work.
>> > I think this is a bad development, not the way to help the project or the 
>> > users of KiCAD.
>> > Greetings,
>> > Edwin van den Oetelaar
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks Edwin, let's all keep an eye on this relative to the GPLv2 licensing 
>> requirements.
>> 
>> if( distribute_code )
>> {
>>         ........
>>         // read the damn license, do what it says
>> }
>> 
>> Their stated intentions seem to comply, while their actions are not in 
>> obvious compliance.
>> Help monitoring this is appreciated.
>> 
>> 
>> 
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