"Specifically, User undertakes not to: ... "use the Platform, Site, or Services to identify or provide evidence to support any potential patent infringement claim against Arduino, its Affiliates, or any of Arduino's or Arduino's Affiliates' suppliers and/or direct or indirect customers. "No open-source company puts language in their ToS banning users from identifying potential patent issues. Why was this added, and who requested it?" Fried and Torrone said."
"right to use the Content published and/or updated on the Platform as well as to distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, publish and make publicly visible all material, including software, libraries, text contents, images, videos, comments, text, audio, software, libraries, or other data (collectively, "Content") that User publishes, uploads, or otherwise makes available to Arduino throughout the world using any means and for any purpose, including the use of any username or nickname specified in relation to the Content."
Arduino stated that the Qualcomm acquisition does not change how user data is handled or how open-source principles are applied. The updated Terms prohibit users from using the Platform, Site, or Services to identify or provide evidence supporting potential patent infringement claims against Arduino, its affiliates, suppliers, or customers. Commentators asked why a ToS would ban users from identifying patent issues and who requested the change. The Terms continue to grant Arduino a non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable, perpetual, irrevocable right to use and republish user Content worldwide for any purpose.
Read at Ars Technica
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