gEDA-user: licensing (GPL or otherwise) for hardware?

[Peter TB Brett]

On Thursday 14 December 2006 18:47, Karel Kulhavy wrote:

> > For PCB that might be the same: if you distribute gerber files, you
> > distribute the *output* of PCB, which obviously doesn't contain literal
> > code from the footprints.  If you distribute a .pcb-file, that is
>
> What about "derived work"? Isn't a Gerber derived work from the PCB?

It is, in the same way that a compiled executable is a derivative work of the 
source code.

Peter

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