> If I buy this document and let somebody make software around it, released > under GPLv3 and developed in community style will this be possible and > legal? > > What are the alternatives?
I have considered this myself, but I suspect there might be copyright issues. An alternative would be to create libraries based on the spec and make those publicly available, or write a closed module which does the calculations and have the rest of the programme open source. It is also worthwhile having a look at the libraries provided with the LP Calculator from PCB Matrix, http://www.pcblibraries.com/ Currently I have a python script (in development) which creates geda PCB footprints based on the land pattern dimensions as they specify them in the PCB Matrix libraries. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
