Re: gEDA-dev: About GPL/LGPL and gEDA's symbols/fonts/schematics

[Ales Hvezda <ahvezda-at-NOSPAMseul_dot_org>]

[snip]
>1) Is there a requirement that all user submitted symbol/font/schematic 
>libraries to gEDA be GPLed/LGPLed?   If not, what are the requirements?

	No requirement, but a free software approved license is nice.  
However, I will not distribute symbols that are not under a free software
license.  Those particular symbols go straight into the circular file,
as I have no intention of tainting the project.  Please do not try to
contribute symbols that you do not own the copyright 100% on.  Oh,
and yes, even if you contribute a symbol, you still own the copyright
on said symbol.

>
>2) Can user submit a free (and/or open) symbol/font library under other 
>more relaxed licenses such as the modified BSD license?

	Sure.

>
>3) Regarding to user schematics using gEDA and/or gEDA's symbol/fonts, 
>(  http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLOutput )answers a 
>question about EDA in general. Does gEDA's schematics/symbols/fonts 
>falls under the same category as described in that FAQ?  If so, in what 
>terms and conditions?
>

	As of right now, the schematic files just reference the 
symbols (unless you embed them and then the waters get a little murky).
So no your schematics are not automatically under the GPL.  They are
still your schematics so you can put them under whatever license you want.

	IANAL, but... my intention for GPL'ed symbols is not to prevent
their use in non-free designs (really you can do whatever you want with
your schematics), but rather to prevent some unscrupulous individual
from coming along and sucking up all the symbols and using them in a
non-free EDA package.  I really don't want this to errupt into another
endless discussion; please see the archives for previous discussions.


>4) If free(and/or open) symbol/font/schematics are all welcomed to 
>gEDA, should user include free (and/or open) license clause with them?

	Sure, free or open symbols/fonts/schematics are more than welcome
in gEDA. 

	For details on how to specify a usage and distribution license
in a symbol please look at:

http://www.gedasymbols.org/style.html

	in the section Copyrights.  Although, e-mail= has been deprecated
and combined with author=, but whatever.   I really ought to update the
master attribute list with dist-license= and use-license=.

								-Ales
	


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