Oliver, I don't make any claims to be a legal expert but I believe that adding a LICENSE file to each repo should suffice. Perhaps our friends and CERN could comment on this if I am mistaken.
Cheers, Wayne On 6/28/2017 7:24 AM, Oliver Walters wrote: > Wayne, Maciej, et al, > > This has been sitting in my //todo for a while. Can I get some > clarification on the LICENSE issue and then I will ensure it is applied > to the repos: > > Am I correct in my understanding that the following text is ALL that is > required (placed within a LICENSE file in each repo)? > > "This work is licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA 4.0 License. > To the extent that circuit schematics that use Licensed Material can be > considered to be ‘Adapted Material’, then the copyright holder waives > article 3.b of the license with respect to these schematics." > > > Or is this an addendum required to be made and I am required to include > the entire CC-BY-SA text? > > Regards, > Oliver > > On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 6:41 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com > <mailto:stambau...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > I prefer the former. Adding the license to fields would be cumbersome. > > Cheers, > > Wayne > > On 4/10/2017 4:43 PM, Maciej Suminski wrote: > > The easiest way to include the license is to put a file containing the > > text in the libraries repository. Alternatively, the text could be > > stored in the 'License' field for symbols or 'Doc' property for > > footprints, but it feels a bit too wordy to me. > > > > Cheers, > > Orson > > > > On 04/07/2017 11:55 AM, Javier Serrano wrote: > >> On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 6:21 PM, Wayne Stambaugh > <stambau...@gmail.com <mailto:stambau...@gmail.com>> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> I'm still waiting for our friends at CERN for an answer on library > >>> licensing. We are leaning towards CC-SA with the use exception > clause. > >>> I turning out to be the longest time ever to write a single > sentence. ;) > >>> > >> > >> OK, better late than never. Here are the proposals: > >> > >> For schematics symbols and for complete symbol libraries: > >> > >> "This work is licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA 4.0 > License. > >> To the extent that circuit schematics that use Licensed Material > can be > >> considered to be ‘Adapted Material’, then the copyright holder waives > >> article 3.b of the license with respect to these schematics." > >> > >> For footprints and libraries of footprints: > >> > >> "This work is licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA 4.0 > License. > >> To the extent that circuit layout that uses Licensed Material can be > >> considered to be ‘Adapted Material’, then the copyright holder waives > >> article 3.b of the license with respect to this layout." > >> > >> This assumes we want a "weak copyleft" regime for libraries, i.e. > we want > >> modifications to symbols/footprints/libraries to be published > under the > >> same license, but we don't want to force people to publish their > complete > >> designs under CC-BY-SA just because they used the KiCad > libraries. Then > >> there is the issue of how to embed this information in symbols, > symbol > >> libraries, footprints and footprint libraries. I am not competent to > >> comment on that. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> > >> Javier > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > >> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > <mailto:kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net> > >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > <mailto:kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net> > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > <mailto:kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> > > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
