Arduino terms and policy changes

#1

Qualcomm-owned Arduino recently published new terms of service and privacy policy which look pretty chilly. What are the implications for uLisp?

#2

Hello,

The situation with Arduino’s new licensing reminds me of what happened with Terraform. Ultimately, the community forked the project, leading to a new open-source alternative: openTofu.

I just wonder if the Arduino developers will fork an older release to maintain an open-source option? I’m not certain if that’s feasible, but my assumption is that the new, restrictive Orwellian licenses will only apply to newly released versions.

On a different note, Zephyr RTOS could be an interesting backend for uLisp . For example micro:bit runs natively it as well as the new nbiot fancy chips from nordicsemic.

Regards regards,

#3

Is there a new license, or just new terms & conditions for using their website? I’ve only heard about the latter.

#4

I’d second this. The current IDE is licensed under GPL 2.0, afaik (phew). It’s also derived from open source software, so the ecosystem should be able to live on.

#5

Hello,

Right, the current IDE should remain open.

Here is a quite interesting article by Charlie Schick, pointed out by adafruit.

Best Regards