call me paranoid, but is it bad to have the pcbs labeled?

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call me paranoid, but is it bad to have the pcbs labeled?

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i am getting ready to send off gerber files for pcb production, and was wondering about the paper trail being left...i mean the wave bubble is illegal, and the gerber files have "wave bubble" on it, and if for strange reasons the board house wanted to send this information over to the powers that be, or if the powers that be wanted to know what the board house was making, they'd have my name and billing information.

i suppose i could just take the .brd files and make new gerbers and remove the marking, but that's extra time and if it's not needed, i'll just not worry. any thoughts?

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i would prefer you keep the labels on as it is how i suggest people follow my 'attribution' part of the license

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ladyada wrote:i would prefer you keep the labels on as it is how i suggest people follow my 'attribution' part of the license
exactly. this is the major reason why i wanted to ask, but forgot to mention it in my first post. i want to leave credit where credit is due of course.

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