RE: [avr-gcc-list] Fw: [AVR-Chat] Make Your Own JTAGICE box

[Ralph Mason]

Jason Kyle wrote:

> The code is most likely copyrighted by Atmel so it's not really
> above board
> to use it like this, after all the JTAGICE firmware must have some value
> attached to it because the hardware sure isn't worth 300 bucks.  A better
> project would be actually writing the code from scratch and using one of
> the free licences.

It's pretty hard to put a Jennie back in a bottle (ask the RIAA).  Hopefully
atmel will let it out there so that $30 jtag programmers can appear on the
market - or perhaps sell them themselves.

What are they really about anyway - selling tools or chips?

Ralph



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