On 18.04.2016 22:58, Nick Hill wrote: > Hi All. > > I have recently re-entered the world of micro programming with both > STM8 and PIC. > > I found the move from PC a little difficult since there seems to be a > range of proprietary headers which published code tends to be written > for. It is often not even clear which header files code is written > for, and so far, I haven't even seen headers released with the code. > For the un-initiated, this can be daunting. I suspect this high > barrier to entry feature comes courtesy of the licensing ST decided to > apply to their header files.
ST licensing is improving, with the general direction being a move from "you may not do anything with this software" towards "you may do anything with this software, as long as you do not port it to non-ST hardware". The latter is still non-free, but at least redistributable. Philipp
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