![]() You can get a PID by forking the pid.codes repo, claiming a PID, and sending a pull request. The original owners of the VID, InterBiometrics, licensed their VID before transferring or sublicensing VIDs and PIDs was prohibited by the USB-IF. The only thing the USB-IF could do to stop this is revoke the original VID useless, because they can’t reassign it to anyone else. This is not a project supported by the USB Implementers’ Forum, and is more of a legal game of chicken on the part of pid.codes. pid.codes obtained the rights to a single VID – 0x1209 – and now they’re parceling off all the PIDs that remain to open source hardware projects. ![]() Now, someone has finally done the sensible thing and put an unused USB VID to work. Very few companies will ever release 65,000 products, and there are a lot of unused PIDs sitting around out there. To sell anything with USB and have it work like USB should, you need to buy a USB Vendor ID, a $5000 license that grants you exclusive use of 65,536 USB Product IDs. The USB Implementers’ Forum doesn’t make things easy for anyone building a product with a USB port.
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