On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:58 PM, Wesley W. Terpstra <w.terpstra@xxxxxx> wrote: > In case anyone else cares, I found some nice Dutch folks who resell PIDs > under their VID for cheap: > http://www.mcselec.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=92&option=com_phpshop&Itemid=1 > > I will probably go this route for now. It is not allowed by USBIF to resell PIDs and the mcselec vendor ID has been revoked by USBIF. So you may not want to go that route either. Ref: in the above URL, it is mentioned by mcselec that "That changed in June 2009 when USB-ORG wrote an email that it was not permitted to sell VID or PID. MCS pointed out that in The Netherlands you can not enforce or change rules AFTER a product/service is sold. So we continued as usual." If you do not want to pay US$5000 for the VID, then you can try to use some chip vendor's PID sub-licensing scheme, eg, from FTDI, TI, Microchip, etc. They will offer you a free PID if you use their product subject to some terms and conditions. -- Xiaofan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
