Adafruit: Arduino’s Rules Are ‘Incompatible With Open Source’

The open source hardware community is debating Arduino’s new Terms and Conditions following the company’s acquisition of Qualcomm.

Arduino microcontroller board

Chief microcontroller rival Adafruit has argued that the new terms threaten open principles by restricting reverse engineering of cloud tools, asserting perpetual licenses over user uploads and implementing broad monitoring for AI-related features.

Arduino has defended the changes, claiming restrictions only apply to its SaaS cloud applications, that data handling is standard for…