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SnowMB / pcb_library

some kicad parts
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Licensing and upstreaming #2

Open marcan opened 5 years ago

marcan commented 5 years ago

I see the project has no stated license. Would you be willing to license these footprints and 3D models under the KiCad libraries license? That way they can be freely used by others under the standard conditions (right now, there is no clear way to legally use these files in other projects).

Also, are you interested in upstreaming these parts into the official KiCad libraries?

SnowMB commented 5 years ago

I am fine with the license. Thanks for the hint. I will add it soon.

In regards to upstreaming: I haven't generated a pull request to the KiCad repositories because of the following reasons:

I might work on this points in the future (and add more parts from my private library) but in the mean time anyone can just get the stuff from here and use it in his projects or use this as a reference for doing their own footprints.

marcan commented 5 years ago

Hi, just a friendly reminder. We'd like to use one of the models for the 3D render of https://github.com/GlasgowEmbedded/Glasgow, which is just about complete, but we can't do that without the license clarification :-)

marcan commented 5 years ago

Ah, nevermind; I just realized that your version is reversed from what we need (latch facing down, ours faces up). I ended up making my own 3D model and footprint based off of the upstream vertical one. Sorry for the noise; we're in no rush now.

Would still be nice to have the license change at some point, since other people might be interested in using the ones in this orientation :-)

SnowMB commented 5 years ago

Do you know if copy + pasting the license from the kicad library repos is suitable? The wording seems a bit off to me for using it on another library.

marcan commented 5 years ago

The only thing that matters is the beginning of the text, the rest is just explanatory. The wording can just be tweaked slightly. Something like this:

KiCad Libraries License

These KiCad libraries are licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA 4.0 License, with the following exception:

To the extent that the creation of electronic designs that use 'Licensed Material' can be considered to be 'Adapted Material', then the copyright holder waives article 3 of the license with respect to these designs and any generated files which use data provided as part of the 'Licensed Material'.

Everything after that is just explanatory, you could copy it and adapt the text, but I don't think it's necessary.