Re: gEDA-user: good books about footprint and land patterns

[Joerg <joergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

DJ Delorie wrote:
>> Hmm, thanks, I didn't know that applied to stuff you post on the web 
>> into free forums.
> 
> It depends on the terms of the forums.  Some say "all copyrights
> reserved by their original owners", others say "anything uploaded are
> belong to us".  Either way, the original author is licensing the work
> to the site, and the site's visitors, according to some terms.
> 
> For example, if I post some ASCII art to usenet, and someone else
> posts a copy elsewhere, I can sue for copyright infringement (caveat
> fair use laws) as I never granted a license-to-copy to anyone.
> 

That would be mighty hard to win, or even find a lawyer who'd do that on 
a contingency base.


>> Cadsoft considers uploads to be completely free to the public unless
>> you place GPL or something in there. And of course they mention
>> "Don't come to us crying and all that if it don't work".
> 
> Do they *say* that, and make you agree to that, when you upload?  If
> not, they have no rights to change the copyright terms of other
> people's works.  If they do, then you grant them the license they
> request when you upload.
> 

They do say that, but to downloaders. To uploaders they say that with 
posting they grant anyone who wishes the right to do whatever they 
please with the uploaded stuff. But they allow to put GPL and such terms 
in if you like, it's just that hardly anyone does. With symbols I don't 
really see a reason why anyone should. When we bring a chili casserole 
to church we don't do that either, anyone can eat some and have the 
recipe :-)


> Gedasymbols, for example, specifically says:
> 
> "You, as the author, get to pick the terms under which your symbols
>  are distributed and used. Note that putting them on gedasymbols.org
>  implies a license for gedasymbols.org to distribute them according to
>  the way web servers (and clients, search engines, etc) work."
> 
> So, you're granting a limited license to copy as needed to get the
> data to the user's web browser, but no further - unless you grant
> additional terms to the visitor to further copy.
> 

No further? What good does a symbol or footprint do if it must eternally 
make its dwelling in the browser? Maybe you meant that it can also be 
installed in the person's gEDA libs and then be used.

-- 
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/



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