I guess that lbr files are for the schematic symbols. If that is the case, I think the reason is nothing with licensing, but rather that there is no "plugin" implemented for eeschema as there is in pcbnew, where one would implement this conversion.
2016-04-08 3:28 GMT+02:00 Daniel Wilches <dwilc...@gmail.com>: > Hello, > > I noticed that to use Eagle's lbr files in Kicad we need to export them from > eagle using an ulp (https://github.com/lachlanA/eagle-to-kicad). > > I think it would be beneficial to have Kicad read directly the lbr files, as > that saves time to the user and doesn't require the user to have Eagle. But > I wonder if it is not done due to some licensing issues. > > I'm posting this to the developers list as I'm not aware if someone is > working on something like that, and if nobody knows of it and is a desired > feature then I could help developing it. > > Regards. > > -- > Daniel Wilches > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
