bifferos wrote:
--- kmk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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")
But not of a proprietry layout. You'd need the equivalent of a
'runtime exception':
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/17_intro/license.html
...although I've no idea what you'd call it here.
That is close, but not it. This is a better comparison:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#FontException
Also, if you go through the archives of this mailing list, Yyu will find
that
this particular subject has been beaten to death on multiple occasions.
Best
Marvin
