Re: gEDA-user: More footprint stuff

[sdb@xxxxxxxxxx (Stuart Brorson)]

> No one on this list seems to want to touch this issue (Or my last email...)=
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> How strange. Here we are on a list dedicated to EDA and nobody wants to=20
> discuss elements/footprints. I assume that this somehow revolves around the=
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> gpl'ing of elements/footprints and the ramifications of using them in=20
> commercial designs. If this is the case, why doesn't someone say so? If this
> is not the way it is, someone should say so.

The idea of a communal footprint archive, whether wiki based, web
based (like the symbol archive), or whatever comes up here regularly.
Like many other good ideas, everybody talks about it, but nobody
actually takes the initiative to do it.

If you have a server running a wiki & the time to do it, please go
ahead.  

> =46WIW, we have already decided to create all of our own footprints and ele=
> ments=20
> from scratch because of the wording of the gpl license. In my mind, this is=
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> serious issue that needs to be addressed by this community in order to=20
> further the spread of usage of the gEDA tools in real work/projects.

You are right.  The question is:  Who has the time, equipment, and
desire to donate this resource to the common good?  Talk is cheap.
Take the initiative!

Stuart