[Coco] Motorola Parts Missing in ExpressPCB

[Michael Graham]

I haven't made any serious production PCBs yet, but I've spent a lot of 
time learning open-source tools like KiCad so I can avoid any licensing 
issues from the design software side of things.

On 08/15/2012 11:44 AM, Louis Ciotti wrote:
> The form they have you fill out has this line in it:
>
> ". I am aware that files generated with this copy of the program can
> be identified by CadSoft."
>
> So I assume they are just using it as a scare tactic, or they is some
> way they can tell.
>
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>
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:40 PM,  <jdaggett at gate.net> wrote:
>> On 15 Aug 2012 at 14:25, T. Franklin wrote:
>>
>>> Curious, I've never used Eagle but if the output is Gerber, how is anyone to know what package you used to create a board? To my knowledge the Gerber (RS-274-D) files don't contain any source identifier. And if it does, it can easily be removed as Gerber is simply a text file. My point is that a company telling a customer they can't sell any board created with their software is a rediculious scare tactic. (IMHO)
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>> Checking the gerber 274X specification and looking at my gerbers generated there appears
>> no real identification of software license.
>>
>> james
>>
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