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["bifferos" <bifferos@...>]

--- In kicad-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Dick Hollenbeck <dick@...> wrote:

> So to summarize, they can:
> 
> 1) honor the GPL, and contribute their new code to our repository, 
> either in trunk or a branch.
> 
> 2) honor the GPL, and do a fork, creating their own online repository 
> where all the new code can be available at any moment.

Sorry for the intrusion - I am not a developer, however I do feel it
necessary to point out that there is no requirement to create any
online repository, and certainly no requirement to make it available
'at any moment'. One of the options (from GPL v2) is:

b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your
cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete
machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be
distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium
customarily used for software interchange; or,

I do hope you sort something out though. I'm sure it will benefit the
Kicad community.

best regards,
-biff.