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Qualcomm's problematic changes to Arduino policies

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Arduino

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open-source

licensing

Qualcomm's changes to Arduino policies have raised concerns among the community, with potential implications for open-source hardware and licensing.

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p_l
6h ago
Quote from possibly a bit too alarmingly written tweet

outrage summary fully irrevocable license to all user content surveillance-grade ai monitoring baked into “improvements” patent-infringement shield clause turning your uploads into liability padding deletion that’s not deletion minors’ data fused into qualcomm’s ecosystem geolocation, identifiers, and analytics data sold or shared five-year public retention of your username broad military/government carve-outs, bans, and exceptions termination triggers for trivialities (credential sharing, username quirks) cross-border data extraction to qualcomm subsidiaries

and don’t forget: 8.2 user shall not translate, decompile, or reverse-engineer the platform, or engage in any attempt to uncover its internal algorithms or logic unless explicitly permitted by arduino or existing licenses

DivingForGold
6h ago
Didn't Cory Doctorow write a book about this sort of stuff ?
ID: 45978782Type: storyLast synced: 11/19/2025, 2:09:32 PM

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