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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/14/2016 2:51 PM, timofonic timofonic wrote:
> Just my very small contribution:
> 
> - It would be very nice if assiting other projects to support KiCad
> formats. What about a common library that could be adapted to other
> EDA software?

That was discussed at FOSDEM but we are no where near ready for such a
library.  This is a long way down the road.

> 
> It would be nice to use LGPL, so this way even interested proprietary
> software would use it to have KiCad interoperability.

I'm not particularly interested in helping proprietary vendors support
kicad file formats because I'm pretty sure they will have no interest in
helping us support their formats.

> 
> Ideally, it would be even nicer to make something like the Document
> Liberation Project. I understand this is a really very very difficult
> task to make it possible, as it requires massive testing and RE,
> despite there are some documentation and converters out there. I'm
> also sure there's lots of testing to check it and other file formats
> not yet known.

Yes.  And as always, this is the stumbling block.

> 
> Kind regards.
> 
> On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Martin d'Allens
> <martin.dallens@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> There is no detailed file format documentation in the kicad-doc repository.
>> Should we consolidate the following sources into an asciidoc document? They
>> would benefit from the docs toolchain and be installed for offline use.
>> -
>> https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~stambaughw/kicad/doc-read-only/files/head:/doc/help/file_formats/
>> - http://kicad-pcb.org/help/file-formats/
>> - http://www.compuphase.com/electronics/LibraryFileFormats.pdf (copyright?)
>>
>> ( User question: https://forum.kicad.info/t/contribution-to-kicad/2289/2 )
>>
>> Martin
>>
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