[Libusb-devel] USB VID/PID for open source projects

[Xiaofan C. <xia...@gm...>]

For libusb-win32 project, we have a few issues and some of them
have been sorted out, for example, the kernel driver signing issue
which has been solved by the generous donations of the people
in the libusb/libusb-win32 mailing list. For the issues with
GPL being excluded license for WHQL we are also working
on it (to change the kernel driver license to BSD in the future).

There is one more issue for the test firmware which is a common
issue for small USB developers. Sometimes you can get a free
PID sub-licensed from the vendors like FTDI, TI/Luminary and
Microchip. And we indeed get one for our Microchip based
test firmware (thanks a lot again, Microchip!). But they all have
strings attached -- to be used with vendors' USB parts only.

Now we intend to have more broader test firmware available,
for example, for Cypress EZ-USB FX2/FX2LP (high speed
USB) and Atmel AVR (and probably AVR32 with high speed)
and ARM MCUs. Then we can not use the Microchip VID/PID.

What are the potential solution here? I think it is too expensive
to get a USB VID for small projects like libusb/libusb-win32.

And I do not really like to use random USB VID/PID like
what we do right now -- that is the motivation to get a
valid PID in the first place.

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Xiaofan