Re: gEDA-user: Footprints licensing (was: good books about footprint and land patterns)

[Ineiev <ineiev@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/19/09, DJ Delorie <dj@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> For gEDA/PCB, we prefer the GPL because the programs themselves are
> GPL'd, so we can mix the program sources and library sources into a
> single distribution with a single license.  Note that this license
> covers redistribution, not use - and it's intended to protect the
> software from abuse, and protect the recipient's right-to-use.

BTW, I could find nothing similar to GNU font exception for footprints
in PCB distribution.

As I understand, this formally should mean that embedding them in a
board file makes it GPL-covered.

Do I miss something?


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