I would love to see all symbols and landpatterns bear proper and correct
attributation.

I strongly suggest that any conversion tool should add comments into the
generated files that state the file was created with so and so a tool
and the source for the generated file was such and such.

Any conversion tool distributed with geda should have this as a
requirement.

Steve M.


On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 18:03 +0000, Peter Clifton wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 12:35 -0500, Ales Hvezda wrote:
> > >I looked into the eagle -> kicad converters.
> > 
> > Related to this discussion, I was referrer log surfing :) and ran
> > across this:
> > 
> > http://blog.mithis.net/archives/pcb/23-eagle2geda-symbol-converter
> > 
> > Note, I don't ever want to see an Eagle symbol in the gEDA/gaf
> > distribution.
> 
> Definitely a wise stance there, unless the author of the Eagle symbol
> gave explicit permission for this, under agreeable licensing terms.
> 
> Having tools available allowing users to migrate their artworks from
> other packages can't be a bad thing though.
> 
> 
> With regards distributed symbols, I would welcome a drive to _remove_
> some shipped components from the main library, placing others into
> collections which can be installed separately if desired.
> 
> We do have to weigh up the desire to have a clean component set with the
> desire to be newbie friendly though (having symbols for components they
> want already made, presented in an easily discoverable manner).
> 
> 



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