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[Carsten Schoenert <c.schoenert@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am 06.02.2018 um 07:15 schrieb Andrey Kuznetsov:
> KiCad is open source.

That doesn't prevents you from being trapped by patent trolls etc. So
the concerns of Ouabache Designworks becomes more serious that KiCad is
getting more popular.

> Last thing we need is to spend resources on legalize and trademark shit
> we give away.

Sure, such work nobody really needs or want.
But the more KiCad is growing the more there is a need to keep all the
various corners together in e efficient way. And this will taking
resources mostly at a time you don't want to spend energy on it. So it's
not a bad thing to think about possible problems in the future now.

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Regards
Carsten Schoenert