Question about licensing!

Just to be quite clear: is your customer planning on selling
the complete 
solution to the public? Or is it just an in-house project?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Patrick Laplante" <plaplantevanteon.com>
To: <bluez-userslists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2006 10:13 PM
Subject: [Bluez-users] Question about licensing!


Hi all,



I am currently working on a Linux based project that need
Bluetooth support.
I need to basically receive images from Bluetooth devices
and print them.



The code printing the images is proprietary and can't be
GPL'd.



Since bluez is GPL, I can't just link against it without
being forced to
make my code GPL which I can't, my customer won't allow me
to release their
IP to the public.



I was thinking of doing this:



A small daemon that uses the bluez library that would, on
image reception
from a device, push the image to another print daemon over a
name pipe or
socket.  Does this break the GPL in any way?  If I
understand the license
correctly, I would have to make my Bluetooth daemon GPL but
my print daemon
wouldn't have to be GPL.



Can you please confirm?  Do you guys have any issue with
that?



The last thing I want to do is upset anybody or put my
customer in a
position where he could be sued.  Worst case, I'll have to
buy a stack from
a company like StoneStreet or implement a custom stack for
my customer
(which will bump the price by a lot ).



Regards,



Pat Laplante
Principal Engineer

Vanteon Corporation
2851 Clover Street
Pittsford, NY 14534-1711
Office: (585) 248-0510 x298
Fax: (585) 248-0537
www.vanteon.com  <http://www.vanteon.com>
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