gEDA-user: firmware and the GPL license
Steven Ball
hamster at snurkle.net
Thu Nov 15 14:12:22 EST 2007
So, to go on a tangent here, what about 'code' in the form of Gerbers
and etc produced by PCB? Would you consider the resultant board
produced by PCB to fall under a GPL license? Would I have to offer
'source' if I sold boards produced with the software?
I realize a lot of the 'code' is stuff written by me, but what about
any headers or linked-in bits of code used to produce the final result
that I did not directly create?
Obviously, I have not read up enough about this, so don't flame me too
badly, but the discussion about firmware had me thinking.
On topic, what if I used a GPL'd compiler to generate firmware using
my own header files or the like? At what point will I have to
distribute the source to my firmware?
-Steve
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