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Is BLE changing licensing policy?

Martin

Sorry for the non-tech. question but I just heard that BlueTooth group is significantly changing BLE licensing policy. Maybe it's some kind of FUD but it should be mandatory to pay a thousands of $ for BLE licensing fee (BLE patents) per one developed device model that is using a BLE module and going to the market. Even the definition of own attributes (UUIDS) would be charged. Is it true? If so, it's going to kill all start-up projects and projects not intended to sell high volumes of BLE enabled devices...

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    A colleague told me, he received some email with PDF from Bluetooth SIG. One is titled "LISTING PROCESS–NEW IN FEBRUARY 2014" talking about some declaration process where "With this update, we are discontinuing the QDID fee and introducing a new listing fee—either USD 8,000 or USD 4,000 depending on membership level —and issuing a Declaration ID as your proof of purchase." and second document "FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE UPDATED QUALIFICATION AND LISTING PROCESS" I don't have time to read them yet, I'm working on programming...

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    A colleague told me, he received some email with PDF from Bluetooth SIG. One is titled "LISTING PROCESS–NEW IN FEBRUARY 2014" talking about some declaration process where "With this update, we are discontinuing the QDID fee and introducing a new listing fee—either USD 8,000 or USD 4,000 depending on membership level —and issuing a Declaration ID as your proof of purchase." and second document "FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE UPDATED QUALIFICATION AND LISTING PROCESS" I don't have time to read them yet, I'm working on programming...

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