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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Oliver,

I don't make any claims to be a legal expert but I believe that adding a
LICENSE file to each repo should suffice.  Perhaps our friends and CERN
could comment on this if I am mistaken.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 6/28/2017 7:24 AM, Oliver Walters wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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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