“Now that we’ve gotten past the typical disclaimer surrounding
the sticky Intellectual Property (IP) issues of committee- and
group-owned technologies like Secure Digital (SD) memory and Secure
Digital Input Output (SDIO) devices, we can take a look at what
legal restrictions are actually in place. In this article we are
going to focus on the IP issues and license requirements for SD and
SDIO software stacks. We are focusing on the host side software
stack that controls the host controller hardware, not the license
and royalty issues of building memory or peripheral cards.“The IP needed to develop an SDIO stack is protected in multiple
fashions: copyright, trade secret, patents, contractual license
terms, and in some cases, royalties…”
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