gEDA-dev: GPL clarification text -- please review & comment/flame!

[Steve Meier]

Dan,

Thanks again for all your efforts in developing PCB. I intend to make my
libraries of foot prints and symbols available in some sort of lgpl way.

Steve Meier

Dan McMahill wrote:
> Bernd Jendrissek wrote:
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>> On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 12:32:51PM -0800, Steve Meier wrote:
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>>> I don't know how difficult it would be to sort the existing symbols
>>> into those that Stuart's exception would apply to and those that are
>>> unknown or specifically excluded from Stuart's exception.
>>
>>
>> Well AFAICT danmc seems to be the only committer of the footprints in
>> PCB CVS under newlib/ so maybe we just ask him about those.
>
> sorry, those were in the pcb sources already when I imported them to
> sourceforge.  It is not clear at all where they all came from.
>
> Now the m4 footprints in many ways I think are easier to deal with. 
> If you do something with the footprint, it is not directly the
> "sources" but rather and output from a batch of macros. newlib
> footprints on the other hand are basically direct copies.
>
> It has never been my intention that footprints I've created be
> restricted in any way in their use.
>
> -Dan
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