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> one vendor's kit I did look at explicitly stated their boards were not licensed for that kind of commercial use. Qualcomm could very well make their boards fo
by josephcsible 1y ago
> one vendor's kit I did look at explicitly stated their boards were not licensed for that kind of commercial use. Qualcomm could very well make their boards for development, test, and evaluation purposes only.
Under what legal theory?
- geerlingguy 1y agoThe "we have lawyers and lots of money to enforce things that are on shaky legal ground and you will likely settle instead of fighting in court" legal theory, I presume.
- q3k 1y agoOne way they could do this is grant you a patent license only for some kinds of use. (and eg. make sure their products are useless without some patent license for some software driver or algorithm)
- limagnolia 1y agoPatents are exhausted on first sale. If you sell me a board that uses your patent, I can do anything I want with that board. At least that is my understanding, IANAL and all... However, if they are distributing SDKs or something separately from the hardware, that software could have its own license that forbids commercial use.
- phoehne 1y agohttps://www.st.com/resource/en/evaluation_board_terms_of_use/evaluationproductlicenseagreement.pdf https://www.st.com/resource/en/evaluation_board_terms_of_use...
- stephen_g 1y agoAs far as I can tell, if they even attempted that, all they could do is deny any kind of warranty claims from you and try and stop distributors selling you any more of their brand parts.
- Jolter 1y ago… which would kill your business, unless you are able to source an alternative part. So not entirely harmless.
- e44858 1y agoThey could claim copyright infringement if you distribute their SDK in your firmware without their permission.