Homebrew PCBs

Actually this happened to me, and I was very upset back then especially 
because CadSoft support refused to help even though the case was pretty 
clear considering the fact that I have a legal licensed copy of eagle 
for years now and they easily could check this.

Anyways, the issue is no longer really such a problem cause thre are 
ULPs which export ANY design and library part into ascii format which 
then later on can be reimported thereby making a previousely non working 
design or part useable again withouth restriction. The good thing about 
this is that no single detail of information is lost during this 
operation except for the DRM stuff.

Markus

javaguy11111 schrieb:
>
> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com 
> <mailto:Homebrew_PCBs%40yahoogroups.com>, DJ Delorie <dj@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > "javaguy11111" <javaguy11111@...> writes:
> > > Interesting, I have used Eagle for many years and have not heard about
> > > that.
> >
> > IIRC it's something new in the latest release; a lot of folks who've
> > been using Eagle for years upgrade and suddenly find their boards
> > locked because somewhere in the past they got tainted by a library or
> > part from a pirated copy of Eagle, passed from friend to friend.
> > Worse, the taint is contagious - it can get passed to a part that *is*
> > legal, just because something *else* therein came from a bad source.
> >
> > So you could have a perfectly legal copy of some library part from a
> > legitimate source, and still get locked out of your design.
> >
> > > Do you have any more specifics or links concerning DRM and eagle?
> >
> >
> http://groups.google.com/group/sci.electronics.design/browse_frm/thread/3fd8ddbb525a110a/af8c28ff5ccb0e8f?lnk=st&q=eagle+drm#af8c28ff5ccb0e8f 
> <http://groups.google.com/group/sci.electronics.design/browse_frm/thread/3fd8ddbb525a110a/af8c28ff5ccb0e8f?lnk=st&q=eagle+drm#af8c28ff5ccb0e8f>
> >
>
> Thanks for the info. I was not aware of Eagle locking people out of
> their designs like that. Especially the issue with parts libraries.
>
>