Re: gEDA: Re: your mail

[Jeff McNeal <jmcneal@level1.com>]

Andrew Dyer wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Stefan Petersen wrote:
>
> > > Naturally I suspect you have to be a licensed owner of Orcad to
> > > have the libs...but the conversion routine would still be a way to
> > > get a vast number of parts defined if  you already have access.
> >
> > Isn't it so that you get the default libraries with the package when you
> > buy it, but I've seen alot "I've built XXX-part in OrCad format" on the
> > net so they should at least be open.
> >
> > Anyone know what copyright notice is on other ecad libraries?
> >
> >
>
> I suspect a good side project for people is to start on is creating some
> libraries of standard parts, since all of the commercial vendors would
> probably object to using their libraries.  Does anybody know of a
> potential free source of part symbols?
>

The gEDA community? :-)  If there was a contrib directory we could all just post
the symbols to seul.  Of course a guide to text size, etc would be nice.  We could
also just grab a similar symbol from the contrib dir and modify it, keeping the
text size, basic shape, grid etc the same.

Jeff McNeal
Level One Communications
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