-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 12:32:51PM -0800, Steve Meier wrote: > 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.
Well AFAICT danmc seems to be the only committer of the footprints in PCB CVS under newlib/ so maybe we just ask him about those. As for those in gedasymbols.org, they seem to specify both dist-license and use-license. Well except for (at least) Evgeni Dobrev: http://www.gedasymbols.org/user/evgeni_dobrev/ which states only: "All work is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License." Which gets us back to fonts vs. derived works... Stuart, would it help if your blurb for the wiki said that all future contributors should say specifically how much "viral" freedom their work carries? Something like, "When you contribute symbols of your own, please specify both a public licence under which you allow modification and redistribution, as well as any exceptions (if any) to the licence conditions that you grant for unlimited use and embedding into schematic diagrams." You're right, Stuart, the PCB guys will have to have their own project-specific blurb, as have one more legal nit to care about: whether or not the final gerber / postscript is a derived work of the footprint or not. IANAL, so this discussion about "useful article" goes over my head: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfs/essay2.html The impression I get is that if the footprint of a big BGA contains silkscreen text saying "This was not a user serviceable part", then it is copyrightable; otherwise maybe not??? - -- A PC without Windows is like ice cream without ketchup. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF+xVfwyMv24BBd/gRAgRbAJ9qC+1yYkW+pG1JryOZiTYLTZEGcgCcCV6C 8M/WHggkLDb4xs1GSNpMkAo= =yvM/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
