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Re: KiCAD SPICE Library

 

There was a conversation in the kicad/librarian discussion area on GitHub
at https://github.com/orgs/KiCad/teams/librarians/discussions/16.

On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 11:25 AM Gonçalo Pereira <goncalo_pereira@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Of course, thanks for the input.
>
> On 9 Aug 2019 19:07, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Otavio is correct.  Unless manufacturer's decide to start licensing
> their spice models under a license that is compatible with our library
> license[1] or we create our own clean room versions, there is no way
> this is going to happen.  Unfortunately, you are just now discovering an
> issue that has plagued electronics designer since the beginning of
> electronics design.  I don't see component manufacturers changing their
> way of thinking on this any time soon.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wayne
>
> [1]: http://www.kicad-pcb.org/libraries/license/
>
> On 8/9/19 7:54 AM, Otavio Augusto Gomes wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Turns out there are licensing / patents issues which do not allow the
> > distribution of the manufacturers models integrated with KiCad. This
> > thread can help you
> > https://forum.kicad.info/t/kicad-ngspice-github-repository/13878/9
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 8:36 AM Gonçalo Pereira
> > <goncalo_pereira@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:goncalo_pereira@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hello,
> >     I would like to throw in a idea to catch opinions.
> >     What do you think of including SPICE models in KiCAD libraries?
> >     That would be not straight forward since sometimes there's more than
> >     one component variant and so on but in my opinion would make SPICE
> >     simulation much more straightforward.
> >     I would like to help implement this if it is considered a good idea.
> >
> >     Best regards,
> >     Gonçalo Pereira
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