[openhw-trento] ST Discovery Board: c'è grroosa grisi...
- From: Marco Ciampa <ciampix@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: linuxtrent@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 02:14:01 +0200
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
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