Re: gEDA-user: Re: PCB footprint mapping

[bifferos <bifferos@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- kmk <kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Dan McMahill wrote:
> 
> >    - what about selling a proprietary layout?  pcb embeds the footprint
> > in the .pcb file so can I offer a .pcb file for sale to someone if the
> > footprints are GPL?  Probably not.
> 
> The GPL explicitly allows reselling:
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLAllowMoney
> 
> (I guess, this is the reason why John Luciani insist on the "No fee
> license")

But not of a proprietry layout.  You'd need the equivalent of a 
'runtime exception':
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/17_intro/license.html

...although I've no idea what you'd call it here.

> >    - desire to promote free footprint libraries to work with our free
> > layout tool
> 
> ack. The libs are really an indispensable part of the tool set. If they
> were proprietary with a relevant fee it would smell like "Give away
> printers and cash in for the ink."
> 
> Just my 2cents
> 
> ---<(kaimartin)>----
> 
> -- 
> Kai-Martin Knaak
> kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Blog: http://lilalaser.dyndns.org/blog
> 



		
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