Sto giochicchiando con questa schedina molto economica di ST: http://www.st.com/web/catalog/tools/FM116/SC959/SS1532/LN1848/PF250863 leggendo qua e la mi sono imbattuto in questo articolo: http://dangerousprototypes.com/2010/09/22/stm32-cheapie-discovery-dev-board/ che parla del fatto che la licenza con cui la distribuiscono è qualcosa ... eccone un estratto: > Nice board. > > Shame about the license agreement > (http://www.st.com/stonline/products/families/microcontrollers/licence_agreement.pdf) > > EVALUATION PRODUCT STATUS. The Evaluation Product allows You only to > evaluate and test the ST products. You are not authorized to use the > Evaluation Product in any production system, and may not > be offered for sale or lease, or sold, leased or otherwise > distributed. If the Evaluation Product is incorporated in a demonstration > system, the demonstration system may be used by You solely for > your evaluation and testing purposes. Such demonstration > system may not be offered for sale or lease or sold, leased or otherwise > distributed and must be accompanied by a conspicuous notice as > follows: “This device is not, and may not be, offered for sale or lease, > or sold or leased or otherwise distributed”. > > RESTRICTIONS. You may not sell, assign, sublicense, lease, rent or > otherwise distribute the Evaluation Product for commercial > purposes (unless you are an authorized ST distributor provided > that all the other clauses of this > EVALUATION PRODUCT LICENSE AGREEMENT shall apply entirely), in whole > or in part, or use Evaluation Product in production system. Except > as provided in this Agreement or in the Evaluation Product’s > documentation, You may not reproduce the demonstration software or > related documentation, or modify, reverse engineer, de-compile > or disassemble the demonstration software, in whole or in part. Questo è uno dei commenti: > BobC says: December 31, 2010 at 10:23 am > > LOL, this so called “license agreement” from STM has no legal power, > it’s complete BS. I don’t know how they think they can pull this sort of > stunt, but if they think they can put this legal BS onto customers I > won’t be using any ST products. In effetti la licenza è completamente assurda e ho forti dubbi che possa anche essere legale. Poi si domandano del perché del successo di Arduino... -- Marco Ciampa "L'utopia sta all'orizzonte. Mi avvicino di due passi, lei si allontana di due passi. Faccio dieci passi e l'orizzonte si allontana di dieci passi. Per quanto cammini, non la raggiungerò mai. A cosa serve l'utopia? A questo: serve a camminare." Eduardo Galeano +--------------------+ | Linux User #78271 | | FSFE fellow #364 | +--------------------+