Re: [Kicad-developers] Release - licenses and legal issues

2015-11-28 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
Just a quick update on the license front. I received permission to use the gEDA symbol library exception license for use in our libraries. I have sent an initial draft to the FSF for comment just to make sure it's sane. As soon as I hear back from them, I will forward the license text to be adde

Re: [Kicad-developers] Release - licenses and legal issues

2015-11-19 Thread Carl Poirier
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > > > Before I spend too much time on the library licensing, do any of the > library developers have any objections to the wording in the geda > license? The nice thing about using an exception like the geda project > used is we can still ke

Re: [Kicad-developers] Release - licenses and legal issues

2015-11-19 Thread Torsten Hüter
Hi Wayne,   very good news. Maybe it makes sense to add the GPL font exception to the KiCad license too, although the font license is now CC0 the newstroke-font will be part of the KiCad-binary (and thus GPL3+). You can find a template here:   https://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/license.htm

Re: [Kicad-developers] Release - licenses and legal issues

2015-11-19 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
Just a quick update on the licensing front. I just committed a change that included updating the KiCad source from GPL2+ to GPL3+ per the FSF. I also updated the newstroke font license from CC-BY to CC0 per the original author. I am waiting to hear back from the geda devs about using their GPL e

Re: [Kicad-developers] Release - licenses and legal issues

2015-11-18 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 11/18/2015 6:36 AM, "Torsten Hüter" wrote: > Hi Wayne, > > >>> Is there somewhere an overview of the used libraries / 3rd party software >>> and their licenses? (for instance an list, >LibreOffice table or similar) >> >> No. > > Would it be helpful to create a table for the internal documen

Re: [Kicad-developers] Release - licenses and legal issues

2015-11-18 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 11/18/2015 6:36 AM, "Torsten Hüter" wrote: > Hi Wayne, > > >>> Is there somewhere an overview of the used libraries / 3rd party software >>> and their licenses? (for instance an list, >LibreOffice table or similar) >> >> No. > > Would it be helpful to create a table for the internal documen

Re: [Kicad-developers] Release - licenses and legal issues

2015-11-18 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
ont exceptions as well. Anything beyond that, I will leave that up to the library maintainers. > > Mario > > > > From: Kicad-developers > [kicad-developers-bounces+mrluzeiro=ua...@lists.launchpad.net] on behalf of > "Torsten Hüter" [tor

Re: [Kicad-developers] Release - licenses and legal issues

2015-11-18 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 11/18/2015 6:36 AM, "Torsten Hüter" wrote: > Hi Wayne, > > >>> Is there somewhere an overview of the used libraries / 3rd party software >>> and their licenses? (for instance an list, >LibreOffice table or similar) >> >> No. > > Would it be helpful to create a table for the internal documen

Re: [Kicad-developers] Release - licenses and legal issues

2015-11-18 Thread Mário Luzeiro
From: Kicad-developers [kicad-developers-bounces+mrluzeiro=ua...@lists.launchpad.net] on behalf of "Torsten Hüter" [torsten...@gmx.de] Sent: 18 November 2015 11:36 To: KiCad Mailinglist Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Release - licenses and legal issue

Re: [Kicad-developers] Release - licenses and legal issues

2015-11-18 Thread Torsten Hüter
Hi Wayne,   >> Is there somewhere an overview of the used libraries / 3rd party software >> and their licenses? (for instance an list, >LibreOffice table or similar) > >No. Would it be helpful to create a table for the internal documentation? If yes, how should the table look like and what kind

Re: [Kicad-developers] Release - licenses and legal issues

2015-11-17 Thread jp charras
Le 18/11/2015 01:41, Wayne Stambaugh a écrit : > On 11/17/2015 1:13 PM, "Torsten Hüter" wrote: >> Hi Wayne, >> >> thanks for the great work, I'm looking forward to the release. I >> have several questions about licenses / legal issues: >> >> Is there somewhere an overview of the used libraries /

Re: [Kicad-developers] Release - licenses and legal issues

2015-11-17 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 11/17/2015 1:13 PM, "Torsten Hüter" wrote: > Hi Wayne, > > thanks for the great work, I'm looking forward to the release. I have several > questions about licenses / legal issues: > > Is there somewhere an overview of the used libraries / 3rd party software and > their licenses? (for instan

[Kicad-developers] Release - licenses and legal issues

2015-11-17 Thread Torsten Hüter
Hi Wayne,   thanks for the great work, I'm looking forward to the release. I have several questions about licenses / legal issues: Is there somewhere an overview of the used libraries / 3rd party software and their licenses? (for instance an list, LibreOffice table or similar)   Are all individu