[Kicad-developers] rev 3419

2012-02-18 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
It is beyond ridiculous, but commit/patch in version 3419 contains a diff of 10385 lines. (A personal record, not one I am proud of.) It is a furtherance of our efforts of making KiCad into a C++ program. This one encapsulates class D_PAD (which is quite an important class, used in a lot of pl

Re: [Kicad-developers] Ideas for kicad

2012-02-18 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 02/18/2012 03:48 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: > On 02/18/2012 03:21 PM, Karl Schmidt wrote: >> On 02/18/2012 01:58 PM, Hans Henry von Tresckow wrote: >>> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Fabio Varesano >>> wrote: I think the >>> main point the OP was trying to make is that just merely adding a

Re: [Kicad-developers] Ideas for kicad

2012-02-18 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 02/18/2012 01:47 PM, Fabio Varesano wrote: >> I see no scenario under which KiCad will "loose its open source status". > Also, there are legal ways in getting money from the community without > risking to forget the focus of freedoms and openness. > > For example there could be a legally regist

Re: [Kicad-developers] Ideas for kicad

2012-02-18 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 02/18/2012 03:21 PM, Karl Schmidt wrote: > On 02/18/2012 01:58 PM, Hans Henry von Tresckow wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Fabio Varesano >> wrote: I think the >> main point the OP was trying to make is that just merely adding a "Donate" >> button without >> thinking about the un

Re: [Kicad-developers] Ideas for kicad

2012-02-18 Thread Karl Schmidt
On 02/18/2012 01:58 PM, Hans Henry von Tresckow wrote: On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Fabio Varesano wrote: I think the main point the OP was trying to make is that just merely adding a "Donate" button without thinking about the underlying structure risks splitting a project apart. Exact

Re: [Kicad-developers] Ideas for kicad

2012-02-18 Thread Hans Henry von Tresckow
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Fabio Varesano wrote: >> I see no scenario under which KiCad will "loose its open source status". > > > Also, there are legal ways in getting money from the community without > risking to forget the focus of freedoms and openness. > > For example there could be a

Re: [Kicad-developers] Ideas for kicad

2012-02-18 Thread Fabio Varesano
I see no scenario under which KiCad will "loose its open source status". Also, there are legal ways in getting money from the community without risking to forget the focus of freedoms and openness. For example there could be a legally registered, democratically driven, non-profit association

Re: [Kicad-developers] Ideas for kicad

2012-02-18 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 02/18/2012 04:44 AM, Александр Закамалдин wrote: > 02/18/2012, 01:24 from Karl Schmidt : >> Collecting money to pay people working on OS projects almost always ends up >> with hard feelings and >> destructive results. One thought I've had is to use the internet code >> bidding market place to

[Kicad-developers] Ideas for kicad

2012-02-18 Thread Александр Закамалдин
02/18/2012, 01:24 from Karl Schmidt : > Collecting money to pay people working on OS projects almost always ends up > with hard feelings and > destructive results. One thought I've had is to use the internet code bidding > market place to hire > someone to complete some feature that I don't have