Re: gEDA-dev: edif2kicad and eagle -> kicad converters

[Werner Hoch <werner_dot_ho-at-NOSPAMgmx_dot_de>]

Hi all,

On Freitag, 4. Januar 2008, Peter Clifton wrote:
> Definitely a wise stance there, unless the author of the Eagle symbol
> gave explicit permission for this, under agreeable licensing terms.

In the user section of the cadsoft download area the email adresses are 
there. Thus, one would be able to contact the author and ask for 
permission to reuse the symbol.
http://www.cadsoft.de/cgi-bin/download.pl?page=/home/cadsoft/html_public/download.htm.de&dir=eagle/userfiles/libraries

I think it's not legaly possible to convert the symbols directly 
provided by cadsoft.

> Having tools available allowing users to migrate their artworks from
> other packages can't be a bad thing though.

Agreed.

> With regards distributed symbols, I would welcome a drive to _remove_
> some shipped components from the main library, placing others into
> collections which can be installed separately if desired.

We could create a second "newlib". And only add a subset of the "good" 
current symbol.
But first of all we have to define what is a good symbol. Light, heavy, 
required attributes, graphical appearance, ...

> We do have to weigh up the desire to have a clean component set with
> the desire to be newbie friendly though (having symbols for
> components they want already made, presented in an easily
> discoverable manner).

Fully agreed.

Regards
Werner


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