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From: Brad Midgley <bmidgley@gmail.com>
To: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: hoene@uni-tuebingen.de, linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Questions on connecting BlueZ/SBC with Ekiga
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:35:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d89ddf300901181735i5d516dc4r45fc83634fe1d7c7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1232294483.5095.34.camel@californication>

Guys

>> The SBC is covered by patents owned by Frans and Philips. Philips has made a
>> legal agreement with Bluetooth SIG allowing SBC to be used in any Bluetooth
>> device. Any other usages require permission from Philips.

Can anyone comment on whether this is specific to the encoder/decoder?
Is the patent an inevitable part of the codec or limited to a specific
implementation?

> good to know since I was under the impression that SBC is royalty free
> in all cases and not only Bluetooth. You might wanna check if it says
> Bluetooth device or Bluetooth usage. Do they really bind it to devices
> or to the transport?

How is a computer with a qualified USB adapter different from any
other qualified bluetooth device? Does the software have to be
targeted for a specific portable computer as opposed to useful on any
computer?

-- 
Brad Midgley

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-19  1:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-18 14:12 Questions on connecting BlueZ/SBC with Ekiga Christian Hoene
2009-01-18 15:05 ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-01-18 15:19   ` Christian Hoene
2009-01-18 16:01     ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-01-19  1:35       ` Brad Midgley [this message]
2009-01-19  5:17         ` Christian Hoene

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