Re: gEDA-user: Re: PCB footprint mapping

[kmk <kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

bifferos wrote:

> But not of a proprietry layout. 

Ok, I missed the point about the mandatory GPL license of derived work.


> You'd need the equivalent of a 
> 'runtime exception':
> http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/17_intro/license.html

Sets of footprints and symbols are a lot like fonts so the font
exception may be similar to what the geda lib needs:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#FontException
To me it looks a lot like the runtime exception anyway...

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

What about "footprint exception" or "symbol exception"?

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