I prefer the former. Adding the license to fields would be cumbersome. Cheers,
Wayne On 4/10/2017 4:43 PM, Maciej Suminski wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> >> 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 : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
