Hi Guerkan,

As far as I am concerned, Kic is public domain, neither Whiteley
Research Inc. or I reserve any proprietary rights to the program.

However, this was originally written at Berkeley, so the Berkeley
rights would still apply.  The original file header is


  * Copyright -C- 1981 Kenneth H. Keller, Giles C. Billingsley
  *
  *     KIC is a graphics editor that was developed by the integrated
  * circuits group of the Electronics Research Laboratory and the
  * Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at
  * the University of California, Berkeley, California.  The program
  * KIC is available free of charge to any interested party.
  * The sale, resale, or use of this program for profit without the
  * express written consent of the Department of Electrical Engineering
  * and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, California,
  * is forbidden.

This would seem to limit commercial use.

Unfortunately, I can't speak for Berkeley.  Maybe you can contact
someone at the Electronics Research Laboratory, Dept. of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
to get a definitive answer to your question.

Again, I personally don't have any objections and in fact encourage
you to distribute Kic.

Regards,
Steve

Hello Stephen

You might be interested in the changes to your software I have gotten.

Yours,
Guerkan

Hi Gürkan,

Thanks for your efforts, I really appreciate this.
In the meantime, I improved an entry routine somewhat, as I
encountered a problem while trying to draw another test mask. The
corresponding fix is attached (should be applied with 'patch -p0 -u'),
together with the new version of the manpage which has minor
modifications, but makes reference to the improved entry routine.
Anyway, documentation and help is still bad, I know..

The patch just changes version number (from 2.4a to 2.4b) and
modifies point.c to use floating point instead of integer numbers
for coordinate entries, with integer type cast after conversion
into internal units. This allows to enter coordinates by values at
the highest possible precision.

In case this diff is problematic, all the files and new tarball
can be found at http://yargo.andropov.org/src/kic/.

Ok. Well, at least for research and instruction it is usable already...

kind regards,

Hi Guerkan,

Thanks for keeping me posted on changes to kic.  It is good to hear that
people still use this program and care enough to work on it.

Regards,
Steve