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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, but "we" are not a small group, "we" are everybody who can 
contribute.  How can an open source project implement/follow a standard 
when it can't make that standard available to its contributors?

On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 05:34:46PM +0300, Vesa Solonen wrote:
>
> I generally agree with both of you, but if Kicad wants to be a serious
> tool for documentation it has to support EN60617 pretty well.
> 
> No company can use it for official documentation and certainly some one
> guy design offices will lose bids if they can not fullfill customer
> requirement of EN60617 compliant schematics...
> 
> It certainly will be frowned upon if we copied the standard, but making
> a component library or software functionality according to one is
> certainly not copying, but implementing the standard.
> 
> I havent read the fine print regarding implementation fee, but somehow I
> suspect every screw made to DIN913 has to pay either.
> 
> -Vesa
> 
> 
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