> I don't understand it. The symbols don't get into the hardware in any way.
Footprints do. I think we intended the "use license" to be for embedding in schematics and .pcb files, though. Also, consider a cell phone with GPL'd software in it. Does copyright cover the cell phone? It's hardware, but it includes copyrighted works within it. Can we say the same about the layout of a circuit board? I don't know. Fair use might come into play, the "works" might not be sufficiently unique, etc. This is, IMHO, similar to the issue of copyrighting fonts used for print. > I don't believe hardware is covered by copyright law. Do you believe > that? Sheets of wood pulp with graphite patterns on them are covered. Why wouldn't sheets of fiberglass with copper patterns on them? But I agree it would be a stretch to expect that. I'd rather thing of the "use license" as being "if you use these in your projects, this is the license". The dist-license covers, for example, transcribing the geda libraries into eagle libraries. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
