The easiest way to include the license is to put a file containing the text in the libraries repository. Alternatively, the text could be stored in the 'License' field for symbols or 'Doc' property for footprints, but it feels a bit too wordy to me.
Cheers, Orson On 04/07/2017 11:55 AM, Javier Serrano wrote: > On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 6:21 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I'm still waiting for our friends at CERN for an answer on library >> licensing. We are leaning towards CC-SA with the use exception clause. >> I turning out to be the longest time ever to write a single sentence. ;) >> > > OK, better late than never. Here are the proposals: > > For schematics symbols and for complete symbol libraries: > > "This work is licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA 4.0 License. > To the extent that circuit schematics that use Licensed Material can be > considered to be ‘Adapted Material’, then the copyright holder waives > article 3.b of the license with respect to these schematics." > > For footprints and libraries of footprints: > > "This work is licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA 4.0 License. > To the extent that circuit layout that uses Licensed Material can be > considered to be ‘Adapted Material’, then the copyright holder waives > article 3.b of the license with respect to this layout." > > This assumes we want a "weak copyleft" regime for libraries, i.e. we want > modifications to symbols/footprints/libraries to be published under the > same license, but we don't want to force people to publish their complete > designs under CC-BY-SA just because they used the KiCad libraries. Then > there is the issue of how to embed this information in symbols, symbol > libraries, footprints and footprint libraries. I am not competent to > comment on that. > > Cheers, > > Javier > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp