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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@...>]

daystar1013 wrote:
> --- 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?

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