Phillip Torrone — aka Mr Adafruit — has found some iffy language in the new Arduino/Qualcomm user agreement for the Arduino platform. It includes rights grants to Qualcomm, no reverse engineering (bye bye open source) and the obligatory AI nonsense.
It's in a thread on bsky: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/ptorrone.bsky. ... p22u">Post by @ptorrone.bsky.social — Bluesky</a>
That's pretty much the behaviour I've been expecting.
I've not read the new Ts&Cs just skimmed that thread. If what's on there is true, Qualcomm have just killed Arduino for hobbyists and commercial/industrial use alike.
And a follow on question: does this apply to the Arduino IDE regardless of the target hardware? If so, there's a knock on impact to anyone using that with pico, pico2, and the raw RP2XXX uCs. Or any other uC that can be programmed from there.
Statistics: Posted by thagrol — Wed Nov 19, 2025 10:59 pm