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[Mário Luzeiro <mrluzeiro@xxxxx>]

Hi all,
I cannot comment much about the policies and decisions. I believe they are a delicate subject.

But as a contributor and "word spread" of kicad, I like to know and see my work being used. That is the only way I feel I received my "payment".
I will be happy to know about open license projects using kicad but also (or maybe special) about companies that adopted/are using kicad.

This is also a tricky (marketing) subject, but having a showcase of real companies that are using kicad, will raise the interest and curiosity of other companies to give a try to kicad.
Actually, at this moment, KiCad is strongly supported with the brand of CERN. (I saw people saying things like: "The CERN is behind that.. so they know what they are doing"). It gives confidence.
I understand that this is a difficult subject for opensource projects to discuss and it something that can change (for the good or the bad) a culture of the project.

Maybe a way would be to attract more institutions like CERN? Universities.. ? (Btw, I heard that china is building a particle accelerator :P Could they adopt kicad as well?! )
So kicad can keep and grow the notoriety in the scientific community and support.?

Mario

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From: Kicad-developers [kicad-developers-bounces+mrluzeiro=ua.pt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf of Javier Serrano [javier.serrano.pareja@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 03 November 2015 10:09
To: Wayne Stambaugh
Cc: KiCad Developers
Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Looking for complex board designs

On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 8:53 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I know it's noisy but I want developer input on this as well as website
> developer input.  I think the developers have a right to know how their
> work is being used and have a say in it.  The CERN folks may want some
> say on this as well and I'm not sure they see the website mailing list
> stuff.

Hi, if I understand well the debate is not really about how we allow
our work to be used, but rather about what to host or link to in the
website and the conditions thereof. As to the former, by including a
GPL2+ or GPL3+ header in our sources we agree that they be used in any
way which complies with those licenses. As to the latter, I have no
strong opinion on the subject, and will agree with whatever you guys
decide. I do have a slight preference for not requiring funding in
exchange of linking because that could open a can of worms. For
instance, we could be faced with a situation where a project we don't
want to advertise (for whatever reason) expects linking just because
they funded KiCad development.

Cheers,

Javier

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