Dan McMahill wrote: > - what about selling a proprietary layout? pcb embeds the footprint > in the .pcb file so can I offer a .pcb file for sale to someone if the > footprints are GPL? Probably not.
The GPL explicitly allows reselling: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLAllowMoney (I guess, this is the reason why John Luciani insist on the "No fee license") > - desire to promote free footprint libraries to work with our free > layout tool ack. The libs are really an indispensable part of the tool set. If they were proprietary with a relevant fee it would smell like "Give away printers and cash in for the ink." Just my 2cents ---<(kaimartin)>---- -- Kai-Martin Knaak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blog: http://lilalaser.dyndns.org/blog
