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--- In kicad-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Dick Hollenbeck <dick@...> wrote:
>
> bifferos wrote:
> > --- 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.
> >   
> 
> Good point. A lawyer would make that distinction. 
> 
> But as a practical matter, if the licensee were to receive weekly 
> requests for the source code (from developers here for example), there 
> would probably be no distinction. Why would someone here want to spend 
> time writing code that he/she was legally entitled to for free 
> elsewhere? Time is money.
> 
> 
> Dick Hollenbeck
> SoftPLC Corporation
> http://softplc.com
>

It's covered under the GPL and if its not you need to remove the GPL
license from the distribution...
He didn't even have to ask,, I mean really
Its either GPL or its not
Jean Pierre's initial response is the only correct one...
What did you expect from your efforts when you started contributing, I
thought it was about making a great program even better. Perhaps I was
wrong?