[Arm-netbook] Use of 2N3904

[Justin Cormack]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 5:01 PM, luke.leighton <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 4:16 PM, jm <joem at martindale-electric.co.uk> wrote:
>> On Sat, 2012-11-10 at 14:11 +0000, luke.leighton wrote:
>>> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 1:23 PM, jm <joem at martindale-electric.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> > What I do is gather up all your schematics, and make a duplicate
>>> > in KiCAD into one big drawing. That way anyone can download
>>> > KiCAD for free can also join in and make submissions.
>>> >
>>> > :-)
>>>
>>>  we'll need to work out copyright on the circuits.
>>
>> The stuff I do is all GPL/creative commons.
>> Is that OK and what is your licensing terms?
>
>  i prefer the AGPL, if that's ok.  Affero GPLv3 works with me,
> definitely for the KiCAD stuff (it's what i put the stuff under
> git.rhombus-tech.net in the eoma.git repo)
>
>  circuits are a bit odd: it's not like they can be done any other way;
> things like op-amp circuits it's hard to claim copyright as it is.  to
> "claim" copyright it's necessary to make a 15 to 20% change and
> apparently that's enough to create a new copyright.

I would talk to the FSF before applying AGPL to circuit schematics, as
the wording does not apply, all the references to "object code" would
actually need to refer to a physical object made from the circuit, so
the legal language is probably invalid for this use case. Also could
be issues with preferred form of source.

I would use a standard open hardware license, or creative commons.

Justin