Re: gEDA-user: Usage vs. distribution of symbols

[Karel Kulhavy <clock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 09:47:13PM -0500, John Luciani wrote:
> Karel,
> 
> Distribution is a usage that is restricted. The restriction is
> that the distribution be performed without fee.
> To meet the intent of the version 0.1 license the distribution would have
> to be released using a license with the same restriction.
> 
> You are correct that this should be stated clearly in the license.
> I will be making updates within the next few weeks and will update
> the license wording.
> 
> Here is a draft of the new wording ---
> 
> Permission is granted to distribute these symbols verbatim,
> individually or in a collection, provided that (1) no fee is charged
> and (2) the individual symbol or symbol collection is licensed under
> terms identical to this one.
> 
> Permission is granted to make and distribute modified versions of
> these symbols individually or in a collection under the conditions for
> verbatim distribution, provided that the entire resulting distribution
> is released with license terms identical to this one.

So that the footprints are unusable for Ronja? I need to have copy of the
footprint in the packages/ directory of gEDA. Because someone may delete
the footprint during changes and replace it with a different one
from your collection (for example smaller electrolytic capacitor) and
then regenerate the schematic. Wanting the developer to download the
symbol from Internet every time is not appropriate.

Or could someone whitewash the symbols' licence by putting them on a
huge board (which is a design, or at least add some piece of working
electronic circuitry to it so it can be considered a design) and then
licencing the design formally under GFDL/GPL and then extracting the
symbols using the buffer and finally putting all the symbols into PCB
distro tarball?

If John changes his licence to fix this it shouldn't have an effect
because he already released the symbols under the old licence.

Or John could you licence your collection under GFDL?

CL<
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> On 2/19/06, Karel Kulhavy <clock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hello John
> >
> > My Ronja project is under GFDL licence. If I take all your symbols and
> > place them here:
> > http://ronja-svn.wservices.ch/cvs/browser/trunk/schematics/packages/
> > is it considered usage or distribution? The directory is used by
> > gsch2pcb to generate PCBs from schematics in Ronja, but only at design
> > or modifications time, not at compile time.
> >
> > Your "No-Fee Symbol License Version 0.1" says that the symbols can be
> > distributed if it's done noncommercially (the distribution of Ronja
> > sources is noncommercial - everyone can download it for free), but
> > doesn't require the distribution to be done under the same licence, so
> > can it be GFDL?
> >
> > CL<
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