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Software Licensing & Trademark Agreements: Mini DisplayPort
Apple provides developers the opportunity to license and use Apple software, technologies and Apple trademarks to build successful products. Regardless of whether your product will be sold, used internally, or bundled with other products, if you wish to use Apple software, technologies and/or ...
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Apple offers free licensing for Mini DisplayPort spec
arstechnica.com — Apple is offering free evaluation and implementation licenses for its Mini DisplayPort connector designs. Hopefully, this will help make Mini DisplayPort a de facto standard instead of an Apple-only technology. Read More... (more) Apple offers free licensing for Mini DisplayPort spec
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Apple Licensing Out Mini DisplayPort Spec For Free
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News — ... Apple explains: The Mini DisplayPort Connector is a small form factor connector designed to fully support the VESA DisplayPort protocol. It is particularly useful on systems where space is at a premium, such as portable computers or to support multiple connectors on reduced height add-in cards. The dimensional specifications of the plug and receptacle mating interface and a recommended PCB landing pad are available for download under the Mini DisplayPort Evaluation License. If you agree to the terms of the evaluation license, download the Mini DisplayPort Connector Dimensions. ...

Apple pushing Mini DisplayPort through no-fee licenses
AppleInsider — ... ArsTechnica , Apple announced that it's not charging for Mini DisplayPort licenses , which can be obtained by filling out a Mini DisplayPort Implementation Agreement [ ...

Apple will license Mini DisplayPort
Macsimum News — Posted by Dennis Sellers When Apple recently introduced its revamped notebooks (the “unibody” line), it also introduced the world to the Mini DisplayPort. It turns out that the company is offering no-fee licenses to anyone interested in developing products that use the Mini DisplayPort specification, reports Ars Technica. Licensing info can be found here.

Apple ponies up free Mini DisplayPort spec licenses
Engadget — ... Apple has just announced that -- in addition to shipping all new computers with the Mini DisplayPort -- they're offering no-fee licenses to companies that develop products utilizing the connection, hoping to create a de facto standard. Of course, the VESA-approved ...

Apple Offers "Free" Licensing for the Mini DisplayPort
HardMac.com — Source : AppleWhen Apple released the new MacBook models, it also adopted DisplayPort in a different size format than the one certified by the VESA: the mini DisplayPort was born. It quickly became obvious that Apple did not offered all adaptors required to use the unibody MacBooks with all type of display, and many Mac users had the feeling to revisit the ADC era and how Apple locked its hardware to its branded-display. For example, one of the missing adaptor is the Mini DisplayPort -> HDMI to allow unibody MacBook owners to use any HD video ...

Apple Gives Away Mini DisplayPort Licenses
Wired: Gadget Lab — ... work with their notebooks. DisplayPort has a few advantages over DVI. First, it is two-way, like Apple's power-hungry ADC connector. This means that it can talk back to the computer, allowing such UI niceties as brightness controls on the keyboard. Interestingly, DisplayPort could also be used as a high-bandwidth video-in for the computer, which could go some way to quelling the fuss about Apple abandoning that other connection standard, FireWire 400. Software Licensing - Mini DisplayPort Connector [Apple via Macworld] See ...

Free Mini DisplayPort licences from Apple for accessory developers
SlashGear — ... After frustrating no small number of new MacBook buyers with the switch to Mini DisplayPort from DVI, Apple have announced that they will be offering no-fee licences to any accessory or peripheral manufacturer wanted to develop hardware using the connection.  While the connection offers obvious benefits to Apple - smaller size, thus occupying less MacBook chassis space, plus compatibility with ...

Apple Pushes For Wider Adoption of Mini DisplayPort
Cult of Mac — ... Apple is pushing for wider third-party adoption of its new Mini DisplayPort display connector by offering free licensing of the specification, Monday reports said. In an updated licensing note, the Cupertino-based company said its MiniDisplayPort is designed for “systems where space is at a minimum, such as portable computers or to support multiple connectors on reduced height add-in cards.” The news follows last week’s uproar by MacBook users who complained of problems watching videos on monitors that didn’t ...

Apple Offers "Free" Licensing for the Mini DisplayPort
MacBytes.com — ... - 09:22:54 Source : Apple [image] When Apple released the new MacBook models, it also adopted DisplayPort in a different size format than the one certified by the VESA: the mini DisplayPort was born. It quickly became obvious that Apple did not offered all adaptors required to use the unibody MacBooks with all type of display, and many Mac users had the feeling to revisit the ADC era and how Apple locked its hardware to its branded-display. For example, one of the missing adaptor is the Mini DisplayPort -> HDMI to allow unibody MacBook owners to use any HD video devices or ...

Apple Looking for Mini DisplayPort Partners
Mac|Life all RSS Feed — display Apple wants you to develop products for use with their new Mini DisplayPort in mind. Now, they wont pay you for doing this, but the good thing is that they won't charge you either. Apple introduced their new Mini DP with their newest MacBooks and fancy pants new 24"LED Cinema Displays and is now offering no-fee licenses to anyone interested in creating Mini DisplayPort specific products. The Mini DisplayPort is an Apple-designed miniature version of the VESA-approved DisplayPort, which totally supports the protocol and offers a more compact, and come on, admit it... ...

ExtraBITS for 08-Dec-08
TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us — ... Apple Licenses Mini DisplayPort Connector for Free -- Apple is making a free license available for the Apple-developed Mini DisplayPort variant on the VESA DisplayPort standard. Hopefully this will make this latest in a long line of Apple proprietary video connectors commonly available from other manufacturers. But why didn't Apple make the connector available through VESA as part of DisplayPort? (Link posted 2008-12-02.) ...

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