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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

I prefer the former.  Adding the license to fields would be cumbersome.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 4/10/2017 4:43 PM, Maciej Suminski wrote:
> 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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