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Vampire05
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Posted: 07:20am 07 Apr 2022

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Hello Guys,

is it possible to buy a commercial license for micromite or picomite? So i can use in in commercial products?

Best Regards Artem

CaptainBoing

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Posted: 07:30am 07 Apr 2022

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you already have it.

From the micromite manual (which will almost certainly apply to the picomite too as it is a derivative work):

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Copyright
The Micromite firmware including MMBasic and this manual are Copyright 2011-2018 by Geoff Graham.
...
The compiled object code (the .hex file) for the Micromite is free software: you can use or redistribute it as you please....
"

See also page 16 where use of the free nature of the firmware is actively encouraged.
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Single, Secure HEX File
If you write a program for the Micromite and set the following options:
OPTION BREAK 0
OPTION AUTORUN ON
you will end up with a program that cannot be stopped or interrupted. To further bullet proof it you could use the watchdog timer and OPTION PIN. You can then use a PICkit3 and MPLAB IPE to read the complete flash memory of the Micromite and export it as a hex file. This will contain the Micromite firmware as well as your BASIC program and the above options. This file can be sent to someone as custom firmware for a compatible PIC32 chip. They can load the hex file and it will immediately start running your program. To them it will be indistinguishable from firmware written in C (other than the startup banner produced by MMBasic). They do not have to load MMBasic and they do not need know anything about programming for the Micromite.
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Many users of this site have commercial products based on various flavours of 'mite.
Edited 2022-04-07 17:35 by CaptainBoing

Mixtel90

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Posted: 07:31am 07 Apr 2022

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AFAIK, yes - contact Geoff Graham if you want a version for commercial use though, it's only polite. The source code for the MicroMite isn't open source, that only applies to the PicoMite.

Note that availability of the source code doesn't necessarily allow use commercially, although it's *probably* not much of an issue here.
Edited 2022-04-07 17:37 by Mixtel90

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Vampire05
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Posted: 08:02am 07 Apr 2022

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Ok Guys,
thank you for your answers. I have written an email to Geoff. I also asked him to forward the email to Peter Mather as I can't find his email address.

Tinine
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Posted: 09:33am 07 Apr 2022

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Vampire05 said Ok Guys,
thank you for your answers. I have written an email to Geoff. I also asked him to forward the email to Peter Mather as I can't find his email address.

I have been through this with Geoff...wouldn't take my money

Craig

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