Andy Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just to clarify: if I use GPLed or BSD-licensed tools to develop > hardware, as well as using GPLed symbols/footprints, am I obligated > to open-source the hardware design (the schematic, the PCB layout)?
The tools do not impose this obligation, but your morality should. > Common sense says no, but the degrees of freedom (hah hah) in open- > source licenses vary greatly, and if I cannot keep my designs > proprietary, then I can't use the tools. Regardless of what tools you use, if you keep your designs proprietary you are a bad guy and will burn in hell after you die (which may be accelerated if you get tried and rightfully executed by a lynch mob for your crime of withholding software source code and/or hardware designs from The People). -Space Falcon, who has open sourced every single piece of software he has written in his entire life (including forcible open-sourcing in valiant breach of employment agreements etc) and will do the same with hardware designs. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
