> So where does this leave someone?  I's be interested in a serious answer
> from MCHIP as to why Phillips is singling ONLY THEM out in saying there
is a
> license problem; I asked about a great deal of other microcontroller
> manufacturers and Phillips said they were all O.K. but one other.  What's
> the word?  Does using a PIC that has I2C hardware count as having at
least
> one I2C device?  How about implementing it in software on a PIC without
the
> hardware?

Or using, say, a C compiler like CCS which uses either s/w or h/w
implementations of I2C, depending on which pin numbers you select, and
which device.  Would CCS need the license?  Or you?
I'd suppose most ppl would be communicating with a 3rd party IC if they
were using I2C, given a choice, I'd use faster protocols...

Oh, which is the one other microcontroller manufacturer  BTW?

MikeS