Open source license for a SPICE library?

Not collected in one place, but there are models everywhere.

What would you pay for a HUGE library ?:-}

I have just about everything known to man. ...Jim Thompson

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Thank you Jim Thompson, how are you doing?

My question was really about the issue of the license, not about price, cost, availability or repository. I've seen libraries or single models with a copyright notice and the statement "all right reserved" (which de facto includes the right to distribute, as-is or modified, etc.). I have also seen proprietary licenses attached to a some models and... Many models and libraries without any explicit license!

By the way, should the libraries provided with Ngspice be uderstood to be covered by the same modified-BSD license as Ngspice, or implicitely public domain?

So if someone would know, if some SPICE libraries were ever released under an open source license, or if this is theoretically possible, I would be interested to know. But this is maybe not the right newsgroup to ask a question about license issues.

sphinx

I don't if there's really any restrictions on the _use_ of models, copyright or not

The biggest problem I see on the LTspice list is that _very_few_ people actually know how to manage libraries. The standard BS of putting the schematic and all its needed symbols and libraries in one folder is just that, plain BS.

I have a large directory that encompasses all my symbols and device libraries, by manufacturer and/or foundry.

All my projects/schematics are in their individual customer directories, and each schematic calls, by path, the symbols and libraries/models as needed.

INCLUDE is the _worst_possible_way_ to manage such stuff.

Come by some time and I'll give a demo.

Invitation applies to any and all. ...Jim Thompson

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On 12/02/2014 01:47, Jim Thompson completely missed the point again:

Hi Jimmy.

Did someone in this discussion use the word "restriction" or mentionned the "use" of SPICE models?

Did someone mention LTspice at all?

Did someone in this thread ask to see your collection of models?

What's wrong here? Have you exhausted everybody's patience so that you are the last man standing?

If the concept of license is a mystery to you, why not:

Option 1: holding back from replying

Option 2: answering that you don't know

Option 3: asking for clarifications

sphinx

Excuse me? What is your problem? Reading comprehension? ...Jim Thompson

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Their "license" allows you to use their particular model. There is no such thing as an all-encompassing library... except my own collection, of course.

Asshole. ...Jim Thompson

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