Turns out Fritzing can still be had with standard sudo apt and thus bypassing the need to pay.
It's 1.0.1 ... The current is 1.0.6 I believe, but I had been working in 0.9.4/6 on Mac anyhow.
My guess is that 1.0.1 was the last freely available version you could easily get.
It's still just serving as a holdover as I get more fluent in KiCAD in Linux. And port over any relevant gerbers and what-not.
Yes ... you can grab it from the github and probably build it yourself.
But if you want a pre-built or installer you'll have to donate it seems.
I donated twice back in the early days, and there used to be an option saying "I already donated," but it seems to be gone now.
I guess it was being abused? I dunno.
But like I said, I'm moving to KiCAD so I just needed some version for a short while to help transition over.
Spencer Wolfe
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