I agree with your firs point and I think that is the crux of the matter, but I goes a bit farther than only developed under a specific licence from Arm. Arm se

I agree with your firs point and I think that is the crux of the matter, but I goes a bit farther than only developed under a specific licence from Arm. Arm seems to also have given Nuvia access to the technology behind their own cortex cores. Arm sees anything that nuvia developed as a derivate of their IP and therefore subject to the agreed upon licencing term. I think that removes some of the weird feeling around the idea of just sharing patents and entering a licensing agreement, but even if arm only gave patent(licences) rights, it would still mean that all of the products of nuvia would be based on that ip. I don't think your example is applicable, in your situation the product is not a derivate of visual studio, but visual studio is just a tool. I think this fits the situation better: You want to write a custom video decoder and because you are small and new a bigger company allows you to use their super fast video decoder and some of their patents if you only sell your software for ios smartphones for a good price. If you breach any of this, your licence to use their encoder as a base for your products expires and you can't use any of their patents.