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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

I guess that lbr files are for the schematic symbols. If that is the
case, I think the reason is nothing with licensing, but rather that
there is no "plugin" implemented for eeschema as there is in pcbnew,
where one would implement this conversion.

2016-04-08 3:28 GMT+02:00 Daniel Wilches <dwilches@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Hello,
>
> I noticed that to use Eagle's lbr files in Kicad we need to export them from
> eagle using an ulp (https://github.com/lachlanA/eagle-to-kicad).
>
> I think it would be beneficial to have Kicad read directly the lbr files, as
> that saves time to the user and doesn't require the user to have Eagle. But
> I wonder if it is not done due to some licensing issues.
>
> I'm posting this to the developers list as I'm not aware if someone is
> working on something like that, and if nobody knows of it and is a desired
> feature then I could help developing it.
>
> Regards.
>
> --
> Daniel Wilches
>
>
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