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[Oliver Walters <oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx>]

Wayne, Maciej, et al,

This has been sitting in my //todo for a while. Can I get some
clarification on the LICENSE issue and then I will ensure it is applied to
the repos:

Am I correct in my understanding that the following text is ALL that is
required (placed within a LICENSE file in each repo)?

"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."


Or is this an addendum required to be made and I am required to include the
entire CC-BY-SA text?

Regards,
Oliver

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 6:41 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> 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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