[OH Updates] Degrees of open-ness in EDA (and CAD in general)

[John Griessen]

On 08/31/2011 09:34 PM, Dave Jones wrote:
> if someone else takes those same OSHW
> gerbers and produces the exact same commercial board, (or uses a
> gerber editor to modify them in some way) then they WOULDN'T have to
> pay for an Eagle license because they haven't technically used used
> Eagle?

Yes, since going from gerbers to "board in CAD format"
is not automatic, they did not benefit from the reusability
of having a "board in CAD format".  They had to lay it out again from
scratch to get a revision.

John