Steve Meier wrote:
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 20:49 +0200, Bernd Jendrissek wrote:
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On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 10:27:12AM -0800, Steve Meier wrote:
Which symbols have you donated? I would like to know so that I can
make double sure to avoid them.
Watched the Poisonous People talk, have you?
Don't worry, you can rest assured that there are no symbols with my
poisonous mark on them floating around.
> Bernd,
>
> As I stated earlier, I am just asking for clarity on what I can do with
> various symbols and landpatterns. I had reached the conclussion that the
> only safe thing for me to do was to use 100% of my own symbols and such.
>
> I again am thankfull that Stuart is working to clarify the situation and
> I also think that symbols which were contributed to the project under
> even the belief that they were GPL and that this extends through to the
> final board should be respected.
>
> I don't know how difficult it would be to sort the existing symbols into
> those that Stuart's exception would apply to and those that are unknown
> or specifically excluded from Stuart's exception.
>
> I do feel that this is an issue that makes the project less atractive to
> a number of users.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve Meier
I've been trying to stay out of this one, but I have to agree with Steve
here. If I design a board I want to be free to sell the board along
with an archive of the design files yet I don't always want to be
required to release modified symbols or footprints or the rest of the
design under the GPL. I don't see this as being at all incompatible
with contributing to the community. As it turns out, *every* design
I've done with gschem and pcb has been proprietary but I doubt anyone
would/could claim I haven't given back to the community.
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