Paladin of the Pegasos
Posts: 1116 from 2013/5/24
From: Nederland
Quote:geit wrote:
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Intuition wrote:
There are no licence fees for shipping a bluetooth stack for your operating system, none at all.
There a licencing fees for creating Bluetooth hardware that contains a Bluetooth stack and selling them.
This changed only recently. I wasn´t aware of the change, too.
Before the cost was to hefty for an niche OS like MorphOS and would have drained our resources within years.
Since the focus of MorphOS was shifted away due to the fee, it also takes time to put big chunks like Bluetooth back into the bag, as developers have other plans and projects now.
It has long been possible to distribute an open-source Bluetooth stack like BlueZ etc in binary form without paying a five-figure annual licence.
What has always existed is a SIG-controlled membership/qualification/listing regime for companies bringing Bluetooth hardware to market, especially if using the Bluetooth trademarks or claiming Bluetooth compliance.
Some of those fees were indeed five figures, but they were not a blanket binary-distribution licence for stack software and never have been.
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