[snip] > One way to seriously speed up Kicad development is to leverage the > efforts of other Open Source electronic design software. Let's say > the a sophisticated design rule checker gets written for the gEDA > project. Wouldn't it be nice if it could check Kicad projects? An > expedient way to make this happen is with netlist translators. A > better way would be to come up with a common format for netlists. > This is the way to go. As of now the Open Source EDA community is > split between three or four projects.
[snip] Has there been any discussion between the KiCAD and gEDA groups? It seems to me that since KiCAD is under GPL, the gEDA folks should have no "moral" objection to KiCAD. Just as one example, I would see enormous benefit to both projects if they could share parts libraries. Just a thought, -Wayne
