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

[Тихомиров В. <int...@ya...>]

Why not to let  "MCS Electronics" to manage the VID it purchased? It does a good job. Do you mean that 10$ is too much per project? Why to take over company's ID space and introduce the chaos?


25.03.2011, 14:22, "Pete Batard" <pb...@gm...>:
> As I've already mentioned privately to some people, an alternative would
> be to just reuse one the of obsolete VIDs published by the USB-IF [1]
> (where you see that the "MCS Electronics" PID reseller has indeed been
> revoked).
>
> It is doubtful that the USB-IF will want to reassign these VIDs anytime
> soon (in fact, that's what MCS Electronics are basing their business
> on), so they can basically be seen as free for use. The only issue is
> coordination between people "hijacking" these VIDs as well as
> misrepresentation/misidentification of the vendor. However, with these
> vendors being obsolete, if you're a well known open source organization,
> something could probably be worked out with USB IDs list maintainers,
> such as the Linux USB IDs [2].
>
> Regards,
>
> /Pete
>
> [1] http://www.usb.org/developers/tools/obsoletevids011411.pdf
> [2] http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids
>
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