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[Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All-

This has gone around a few times already but I don't know that there was
consensus last time.  So let's figure it out here.

There are three levels of lock for footprints:
1) Free
2) Lock pads
3) Lock footprint

In 1) you can edit everything.  In 2) you can only edit the footprint in 3)
you cannot edit anything.

In 5.0, the behavior was that 2) prevented the pad from moving but you
could still change its properties and, if you went into the pad properties
menu, you could in fact move the pad in the footprint.

In 5.1 at the moment, once a thing is locked, you can't edit it at all
until you unlock it.

I think we went in the wrong way with this.  I don't think we should be
changing this behavior until we have a file format update to separate
"lock" from "don't move".  I often do not want the footprint pads to move
but still want to be able to change the clearance or fill connection type
of the pad.

I'm open to hearing why we need this change in 5.  I just haven't heard the
reason yet.

-Seth