gEDA-dev: edif2kicad and eagle -> kicad converters

[Peter Clifton]

On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 12:35 -0500, Ales Hvezda wrote:
> >I looked into the eagle -> kicad converters.
> 
> Related to this discussion, I was referrer log surfing :) and ran
> across this:
> 
> http://blog.mithis.net/archives/pcb/23-eagle2geda-symbol-converter
> 
> Note, I don't ever want to see an Eagle symbol in the gEDA/gaf
> distribution.

Definitely a wise stance there, unless the author of the Eagle symbol
gave explicit permission for this, under agreeable licensing terms.

Having tools available allowing users to migrate their artworks from
other packages can't be a bad thing though.


With regards distributed symbols, I would welcome a drive to _remove_
some shipped components from the main library, placing others into
collections which can be installed separately if desired.

We do have to weigh up the desire to have a clean component set with the
desire to be newbie friendly though (having symbols for components they
want already made, presented in an easily discoverable manner).


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