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+Can somebody please come to my rescue on this one:
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+This was posted to the developer's list.   It would be nice to get an 
+apology or at least a link to the posting from which he launches such an attack:
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+Dick, enough of this whining. The article on gnu.org is more than an opinion
+piece - unless
+you really don't know what/who gnu.org is. While I and others here do appreciate
+contributions made by all involved, your contributions do not entitle you to the
+rest of the
+code base. The GPL license is not revocable. You can take your lines of the
+code (and only
+just what you wrote) and do what you want, but you can't take Jean Pierre's
+code, even if
+you have modified it, without violating the GPL.
+
+I'm hereby asking Jean Pierre if he could please make it clear to this list if
+he has ANY
+intent of turning this package away from GPL for Dick or anyone else. I think
+all involved
+should know here and now if this is going to remain an open GPL project or not.
+I don't
+think anyone else here is interested in seeing kicad become a proprietary
+package.
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+If Dick thinks he can just take the entire code base as his, I'm sure that FSF
+would help
+with the legal costs of stopping him. (To donate to FSF see
+http://www.fsf.org/associate/support_freedom/donate )
+
+FSF has stepped up to the plate before and stopped people from appropriating GPL
+software
+for their own ends. The cost of IP litigation is not cheap, so I would recommend
+Dick to
+talk to an IP attorney before doing something stupid.
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+Transtronics, Inc. WEB http://xtronics.com
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 Change Log for Kicad
 Started 2007-June-11