> So, to go on a tangent here, what about 'code' in the form of Gerbers > and etc produced by PCB? Would you consider the resultant board > produced by PCB to fall under a GPL license? Would I have to offer > 'source' if I sold boards produced with the software?
The gerbers are derived works of the *.pcb file, not of pcb itself. There is some confusion about the use of copyrighted *footprints* in your board, but all the ones we offer are licensed in such a way as to avoid this problem. > I realize a lot of the 'code' is stuff written by me, but what about > any headers or linked-in bits of code used to produce the final result > that I did not directly create? None in the gerbers, the amount in the PS/EPS code is too small to be copyrightable. It would be like trying to copyright the phrase "Table of Contents" in a book. > On topic, what if I used a GPL'd compiler to generate firmware using > my own header files or the like? At what point will I have to > distribute the source to my firmware? Nope. The output of a compiler is derived from the input to the compiler, not from the compiler itself. That's why one uses a LEGAL definition of "derived work", not a technical one. If you write a book, the Bic company doesn't own it because you used their pen. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
