Gnetlist is a netlist generation program. It takes .sch (schematic) and .sym (symbol) files and converts them into netlists. Gnetlist is currently a text based utility and will probably remain one. Gnetlist is a part of gEDA. gEDA is a collection of tools which are used to make electrical circuit design, simulation and prototyping/production easier/doable. gEDA is a project, which was started because of the lack of free EDA tools for UNIX. All of the tools in gEDA are released under the GNU Public License version 2 (GPL).