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[Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 8 Apr 2010, Opendous Support wrote:

> Lorenzo,
>
>  It is better you do not post your private footprint collection if
> they cannot be incorporated into KiCAD.  The Non-Commercial clause
> will make them useless and just complicate things for someone down the
> road.

I published the branch anyway, the non-commercial clause is evident.
Today I'll ask for permission for commercial status (should not be
a problem, I'm just being careful). As a policy I'm being paid to fix
problems with kicad/develop features if it aid the company, so
publishing the libraries *even for commercial work* should not be
a problem.

>  If they were created in a work-for-hire situation then you do not
> own them and it could create problems for you.

No problem with that. We *explicitly* keep possession of all the work
(projects, prototypes, IP) even for commission work. We aren't *designer
consultants*, we sell the final product. I.E. you want a machine, we
don't design the machine for you, we sell you the final products (and,
if not in the contract clauses, we can sell it to someone else too :D).

>  I create all my own footprints anyway so I was really just curious
> to see other's procedures.

For pro work you need to make you footprints anyway since there is no
fab facility alike out there. The CSP packages were a PITA to make
anyway and are a good study case.

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Lorenzo Marcantonio
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