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

[Greg KH <gr...@kr...>]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:34:39AM +0800, Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> 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.

For Linux-based projects, I can assign valid product id numbers from the
Linux Foundation's vendor id.  Just email me and let me know what you
want/need and I will reserve it.

For non-Linux-based projects, sorry, I don't know what to suggest.

thanks,

greg k-h