US EditionArduino’s new terms of service worries hobbyists ahead of Qualcomm acquisition
Arduino's revised terms grant Qualcomm broad rights over user content and data integration, sparking concerns about open-source principles and user privacy from community vendors.
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Qualcomm rewrote Arduino's TOS, and the community is not taking it well
Qualcomm recently acquired Arduino for an undisclosed sum, sparking immediate fears that the "death of Arduino" was imminent. According to New York-based electronics vendor Adafruit Industries (AI), the Qualcomm-owned Arduino has quietly rewritten its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The new documents are drastically different, with AI criticizing the...Read Entire Article
#Industry News Following its acquisition of Arduino, Qualcomm has revised its terms of service and privacy policy. User-uploaded code will be permanently licensed to Qualcomm, and reverse engineering of development boards is prohibited. As an open-source ecosystem, Arduino's current terms may completely undermine Qualcomm's influence.
Arduino’s new terms of service worries hobbyists ahead of Qualcomm acquisition @arstechnica
Scharon Harding at Ars Technica writes about the change in the Arduino Terms of Service after acquisition by Qualcomm. “Why is reverse-engineering prohibited… for a company built on openly hackable systems?” Some members of the maker community are distraught about Arduino’s new terms of service (ToS), saying that the added rules put the company’s open source DNA at risk. Arduino updated its ToS and privacy policy this month, which is about a mon…
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