Groover

@ptorrone Please create a thread on your own forum and post a final message here with the link. I will close this thread by Monday morning, even if no link is provided.

Yes. It's not anything as formal as a written license agreement, but yes that is indeed the practical reality of the bootloader chip.

When someone purchases one bootloader chip don't they get a license to make one Teensy board commercially using their own layout?

Adafruit were perfectly happy to sell Teensy with the closed-source bootloader to this point. I don't understand why they don't switch to buying the bootloader chip from Paul and make their own clones to undercut Sparkfun? It would be a quicker...

Trying to understand this - the third party would want a reseller discount so they can make a profit, and then Adafruit would also want a reseller discount so they can make a profit. I struggle to see how Adafruit would then be able to remain...