Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 11:20:31 +0200 (CEST)
From: Peter Wippich <pewi@gw-instruments.de>
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Hi Heiko, 

On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote:

> Am Donnerstag 05 Juli 2007 um 10:04:31 schrieb Marcel Holtmann:
> > there is no long reply needed. The library is GPL and this means every
> > application using it has to be GPL, too. Period. No exception.
> 
> Okay. For me, this basically means that Linux cannot support commercial 
> Bluetooth applications at the moment (without licensing a commercial 
> Bluetooth stack), because Affix is also GPL'd, which is fine.

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=gpl for examples. 

And I think you agree that the Tom Tom Navigation systems are commercial 
products. 
 
Ciao, 

Peter 


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