Re: [Bluez-devel] Using BlueZ in commercial applications - Once again.

["Heiko Wundram (Beenic)" <wundram@beenic.net>]

Am Donnerstag 05 Juli 2007 um 11:20:31 schrieb Peter Wippich:
> This is not fully true. You need soem glue layer which needs to be GPL or
> LGPL. Check http://www.tomtom.com/page.php?Page=3Dgpl for examples.
>
> And I think you agree that the Tom Tom Navigation systems are commercial
> products.

Totally true, and that's why I asked about the D-BUS interface because that=
 is =

(supposedly, as it's LGPL-licensed) a glue layer which would work for my ca=
se =

(without me having to implement the glue code).

But generally, this means that in case the available glue layers don't fit =
my =

need, I will have to write a glue layer between my commercial application a=
nd =

BlueZ, which not only costs resources and time but also makes the applicati=
on =

more complex (and error-prone, because of blown code size and the need for =

IPC, as wrapping BlueZ in another library would defeat the purpose of the =

GPL-circumventing glue code), which is generally not acceptable for the =

small- to medium-scale fully integrated solution we're currently working on.

And, most importantly, we don't have a team of programmers like TomTom does=
 to =

develop this glue.

Anyway, I respect the licensing decision on the BlueZ developers part fully=
, =

which is not what I'm trying to debate about. But, as I said, as long as =

there is no fully functional glue code which works out of the box with =

commercial applications - the socket-API being one form of such glue code =

(but because that requires a GPL'd header to actually function, think of =

AF_BLUETOOTH defined only in bluetooth/bluetooth.h, it's out of the =

question) - BlueZ is simply unusable for our current needs, and I guess qui=
te =

a lot of other commercial Bluetooth developers would feel the same.

Anyway, thanks you two for taking the time to answer me.

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Heiko Wundram
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