Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carsten Schoenert <c.schoen...@t-online.de>
* Package name : kicad-footprints Version : 5.x.x+$date Upstream Author : KiCad Community * URL : https://kicad.github.io/footprints/ * License : CC-BY-SA 4.0 with exception* Programming Lang: Plain Text Description : footprint libraries for KiCad's Pcbnew editor Pcbnew is a powerful printed circuit board software and part of the KiCad suite. Pcbnew manages libraries of footprints. Each footprint is a drawing of the physical component including its land pattern (the layout of pads on the circuit board). Footprints have a strong relationship to the schematic symbols that are used in Eeschema and both parts (kicad-symbols and kicad-footprints) depending on each other in some way. Like for the schematic symbols the footprints are also evolving and growing fast and this brings in some difficulty to provide actual footprint data for KiCad within Debian and like planned for the schematic symbols the footprints need to go also into a own source package. This is another part of transitioning the existing kicad-common package into dedicated smaller packages. The package will be maintained in the pkg-electronics-team together with Jean-Samuel Reynaud (maintainer of the daily build PPA for Ubuntu). We will try to keep the package the same in Debian and Ubuntu. More Co maintainers are welcome! *License exception "To the extent that the creation of electronic designs that use 'Licensed Material' can be considered to be 'Adapted Material', then the copyright holder waives article 3 of the license with respect to these designs and any generated files which use data provided as part of the 'Licensed Material'." more license information http://kicad-pcb.org/libraries/license/