For quite some time now I've been working on a product using a PIC16F877 with a
bootloader.  Now I've come to the point in the project where I actually want to
distribute software images  to be downloaded onto the product.  In the ideal
world, I'd just give someone a hex file and they'd load it onto the PIC(s) then
they'd dispose of the file.

Since this isn't the ideal world, I figured that I should distribute the hex
file with some kind of licensing agreement.  At least then, the company that I
work for could take some legal action if somebody did something like edit and
redistribute the file.

Have any of you developed a closed source firmware license that I can borrow
heavily from?

I was thinking that the license should include clauses that:
-allow individuals or companies that own our hardware to distribute and use the
firmware only on machines that they own
- prevent alteration of the firmware
- prevent disassembling of the firmware
- retain all of our copyrights
- limit our liabilities

Are there any other clauses that I might want to include?

-Mike

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