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[Maciej Suminski <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>]

The easiest way to include the license is to put a file containing the
text in the libraries repository. Alternatively, the text could be
stored in the 'License' field for symbols or 'Doc' property for
footprints, but it feels a bit too wordy to me.

Cheers,
Orson

On 04/07/2017 11:55 AM, Javier Serrano wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 6:21 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
>> I'm still waiting for our friends at CERN for an answer on library
>> licensing.  We are leaning towards CC-SA with the use exception clause.
>> I turning out to be the longest time ever to write a single sentence. ;)
>>
> 
> OK, better late than never. Here are the proposals:
> 
> For schematics symbols and for complete symbol libraries:
> 
> "This work is licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA 4.0 License.
> To the extent that circuit schematics that use Licensed Material can be
> considered to be ‘Adapted Material’, then the copyright holder waives
> article 3.b of the license with respect to these schematics."
> 
> For footprints and libraries of footprints:
> 
> "This work is licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA 4.0 License.
> To the extent that circuit layout that uses Licensed Material can be
> considered to be ‘Adapted Material’, then the copyright holder waives
> article 3.b of the license with respect to this layout."
> 
> This assumes we want a "weak copyleft" regime for libraries, i.e. we want
> modifications to symbols/footprints/libraries to be published under the
> same license, but we don't want to force people to publish their complete
> designs under CC-BY-SA just because they used the KiCad libraries. Then
> there is the issue of how to embed this information in symbols, symbol
> libraries, footprints and footprint libraries. I am not competent to
> comment on that.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Javier
> 
> 
> 
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