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<span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">Adafruit is wrong here. Hacker News member SimianSci writes:</span>
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<br><span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">"A missing piece of the puzzle that i feel is ommitted in Adafruits posting, is that the changes only affect the Arduino Cloud Services, which provide various github-like services for the arduino ecosystem. Looking over the changes with this in mind, it seems a lawyer just applied the same standard SaaS legal language to what is effectively a SaaS offering, pretty normal in most cases.</span>
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<br><span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">None of these changes will affect the Arduino open-source hardware project.</span>
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<br><span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">[EDIT] - confirmed: https://www.arduino.cc/en/privacy-policy/ all the legal language applies to the website, online services, forums, etc."</span>
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<br><span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">Also the Arduino IDE and runtime code still has flavors of GPL licensing.</span>
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<br><span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">Pete</span>
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