On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 10:52 PM, Carsten Schoenert <c.schoen...@t-online.de> wrote:
> Am 06.02.2018 um 07:15 schrieb Andrey Kuznetsov: > > KiCad is open source. > > That doesn't prevents you from being trapped by patent trolls etc. So > the concerns of Ouabache Designworks becomes more serious that KiCad is > getting more popular. > > > Last thing we need is to spend resources on legalize and trademark shit > > we give away. > > Sure, such work nobody really needs or want. > But the more KiCad is growing the more there is a need to keep all the > various corners together in e efficient way. And this will taking > resources mostly at a time you don't want to spend energy on it. So it's > not a bad thing to think about possible problems in the future now. > > -- > Regards > Carsten Schoenert > > Yes, Look at the Risc-v folks. They are open source but they have a non-profit foundation set up to deal with vision,managing ,fund raising etc. The Kicad name is becoming valuable and you need to protect it. John Eaton
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