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

[Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 19 May 2009 13:03:33 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:

> Hence I added "caveat fair use". 

Note, there is no "fair use" clause in non Anglo American copyright law.

However, there is a "threshold of originality" that is a prerequisite for 
the application of copyright. This threshold is considerably higher in 
European law, than in America. 

E.g. usenet postings are considered below this threshold by default. 
There may be exceptions. But their originality has to be proven on case 
by case base.


> So, the license process goes:
> 
> author -> gedasymbols (to allow browsing) author -> user (to allow use
> and/or redistribution)
> 
> Specifically, it does NOT go gedasymbols->user.  I don't want to be a
> license middle-man.

Another difference between Anglo American law and the rest of the world:
Under European law an author can't give away the copyright on his work. 
He can grant the right to use to others. But he cannot pass the copyright 
itself. Thus in European law there is no such thing as a middle-man to 
act like an author when it comes to copyright. 

I hope, licenses in geda/pcb work under European law work like they do 
with regard of the Angloo American system. But IANAL...

---<(kaimartin)>---



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