[sdiy] Monowave goes GPL

[James Patchell]

Well....basically...there is nothing to stop you...circuits cannot be 
copyrighted...only schematics can (for those who can't see the 
distinction...well, what can I say).  To protect a circuit...you must have 
a patent...

The patents have all run out on the Ladder Filter...anybody can use them 
any way they want.  I am afraid, Tom...you are being a bit on the silly side.

If somebody wants to protect their intellectual property...it has no place 
on the Internet.  Once it is posted...well, there it is.  It doesn't matter 
what type of protections you have...once it is there...the genie is out of 
the bottle.

At 12:34 PM 8/25/2005 -0700, tomg wrote:
>If you want an entire list of Doepfer's.
>You are going about it the right way.
>
>I'll start with Jurgen and Ian's sites.
>It won't take me long. I bet I can
>have the first boards in 6 weeks.
>
>I'm not going to ask permission so
>there's no need to give them any
>credit for their work. I'll pretend that
>I found it somewhere else or protest
>that it was someone else's design to
>start with. No flys on me.....
>
>Regards
>Tom

         -Jim
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