=0A= =0A= > On Apr 7, 2015, at 07:23, Martin K wrote:=0A= > =0A= > =0A= >> On 4/7/2015 10:05 AM, Vitaliy M wrote:=0A= >> http://hackaday.com/2015/04/03/usb-pids-for-all/=0A= >> =0A= >> "The USB Implementers=92 Forum doesn=92t make things easy for anyone bui= lding a product with a USB port. To sell anything with USB and have it work= like USB should, you need to buy a USB Vendor ID, a $5000 license that gra= nts you exclusive use of 65,536 USB Product IDs. Very few companies will ev= er release 65,000 products, and there are a lot of unused PIDs sitting arou= nd out there.=0A= >> Now, someone has finally done the sensible thing and put an unused USB V= ID to work. pid.codes obtained the rights to a single VID =96 0x1209 =96 an= d now they=92re parceling off all the PIDs that remain to open source hardw= are projects.=0A= >> =0A= >> This is not a project supported by the USB Implementers=92 Forum, and is= more of a legal game of chicken on the part of pid.codes. The only thing t= he USB-IF could do to stop this is revoke the original VID; useless, becaus= e they can=92t reassign it to anyone else. The original owners of the VID, = InterBiometrics, licensed their VID before transferring or sublicensing VID= s and PIDs was prohibited by the USB-IF.=0A= >> =0A= >> You can get a PID by forking the pid.codes repo, claiming a PID, and sen= ding a pull request. Once that=92s accepted, that PID is yours forever."=0A= > =0A= > People have tried this before. I wish them luck, but the USB IF will put= =0A= > up a fight.=0A= > =0A= > I think Olin might have tried it, and Wouter actually re-sold PIDs. He=0A= > got a cease-and-desist.=0A= > =0A= =0A= Argh. Forgot the tag. Thanks for fixing it, Martin.=0A= -- =0A= http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive=0A= View/change your membership options at=0A= http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist=0A= .