Re: gEDA-user: licensing (GPL or otherwise) for hardware?

[DJ Delorie <dj@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> It happened in CZ that someone did this with my Ronja and I was
> pissed and I thought what he did was illegal. But looked into the
> law and finally understood electronics design cannot be protected by
> copyright there, so it turned out he didn't do anything illegal. Is
> it different in the US?

I think, in the US, that the schematics and layout are protected by
copyright, but the actual design may only be protected by patent.
I.e. someone can build a copy of Ronja, but may not copy your
schematics without permission.


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