A header wizard

[mackrackit]

MicrChips EULA, Part of. What do you all think it really means?

(a) Subject to all of the terms of this Agreement, Company grants Licensee a personal, worldwide, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, non-transferable limited license to use and modify the Software solely for use with Company products (“Company Products”).

Licensee may not modify, create derivatives or reverse engineer (by disassembly, decompilation, translation, or otherwise) Software and may not copy or reproduce all or any portion of Software, except to the extent that such activity is specifically allowed by this Agreement or expressly permitted by applicable law notwithstanding the foregoing limitations.

[cncmachineguy]

MicrChips EULA, Part of. What do you all think it really means?

Well I'm no lawyer to be sure. I am certain of one thing, it is vague enough to mean whatever their lawyers imagination needs it to mean.

Having said that, I take the first line to mean we are not allowed to use MPLAB to program any other uP's. The vagueness comes into play where the software or any data files may also be considered "company products". But we ARE using it to program THEIR products. AND we are not offering it for sale.

I don't believe we are doing any of the second statement unless we package copies of the inc's, dev's, ... with our wizard. So this brings me to the question of the web based app, can we have it look at the data on our local drive? That way we don't have to upload the files to the server, thus not violating the aggrement.

I agree with the post way back about the license, we need one, if for nothing else but to state the microchip files may not be copied.

Personally I am a wait and see kind of guy. As such, I don't believe we are infringing on the license. This may be one of those areas where they don't care, but if we push them to make a decision, they will decide we can't use them to avoid any further problems. We are after all, creating something to promote the sale of more PIC's. This wizard will in no way have a negitave impact on them or their product.

Now I suppose if someone wanted to, the wizards could be modified to work for other brands, but at that point the microchip files will be of no use to them.

Just my $.02.