gEDA-dev: Revised symbol license text

[Stuart Brorson]

On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Peter Clifton wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 07:38 -0400, Stuart Brorson wrote:
>> I revised the symbol license text to reflect some of the suggestions
>> people made.  Please find it below.  I am calling for comments &
>> flames.  Assuming people like it, I will
>> put it onto the gEDA webpage this weekend some time.
>
> This all looks good Stuart.

Thanks!

> If we use some community based collection of symbols, there should of
> course be the option for the author to use whatever license they want on
> their symbols - but having this license as a requirement for anything
> _bundled_ with gschem is great.

Yeah, ideally gEDA/gaf symbols and PCB footprints would use this (or
equivalent) verbiage, so folks downloading the base software tools
would get the GPL + exemption licence.  Then, folks like John Luciani
or contributors to gedasymbols.org could release parts under their own
preferred licence on their own websites/webpages.  In that case, it
would be cavet emptor for the user downloading those third-party
files.

Stuart