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diff --git a/development/lepton-eda/README b/development/lepton-eda/README index a726edc508..136179afea 100644 --- a/development/lepton-eda/README +++ b/development/lepton-eda/README @@ -1,12 +1,10 @@ Lepton EDA (Lepton Electronic Design Automation) -The Lepton EDA suite provides schematic capture, netlisting, bill -of materials generation, and many other features. It was forked -from the gEDA/gaf suite in late 2016. - -The file format for schematics remains the same, and Lepton EDA -can be used as a drop-in replacement for geda-gaf, though parallel -installation is also supported (all programs have been renamed). - -Many bugs have been fixed and new features added. It's in active -development and well supported. +Lepton EDA is a suite of free software tools for designing +electronics. It provides schematic capture, netlisting into +over 30 netlist formats, and many other features. +It was forked from the gEDA/gaf suite in late 2016 by most +of its active developers at that time. +It's backward compatible with its predecessor and supports +the same file format for symbols and schematics. +It's in active development and well supported. |