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Re: Use Bluez in comercial Products ?: msg#00160

Subject: Re: Use Bluez in comercial Products ?
Hi Max,

> >I use usb-bluetooth dongle on linux with bluez.
> >Now I want to use this in a commercial product to connect to my application 
> >via the network over the bluetooth dongle.
> >
> >I heard that every commercial product hase to certifyed, or the stack has to 
> >be certifyed from Bluetooth organisation. How is this with bluez? Is it 
> >allowed to use Bluez in comercial products or do i have to do any licencing 
> >or something else? Or is it allowed to use bluez in comercial products...
> We (developers) don't mind people using Bluez in commercial products. In fact 
> people
> already make products based on Linux kernel with Bluetooth support and Bluez 
> tools.

but these people should make sure that they don't violate the BlueZ
license.

> However you will still have to qualify your product. At some point we might 
> qualify 
> the stack itself. But it has not been done yet.

Daryl has done so much work on this area and I think we will profit much
from this. Has anyone else experiences with the qualification and want
to share it with us.

Regards

Marcel




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