Question : Do commercial usage of this example and its dependencies authorized or not ?

[Razzorback225]

Hi there,

I'm planning to use an ESP32 in a commercial (and Open Source) project of a Bluetooth Audio DAC and was very happy when I found your work regarding the aptXs and LDAC codecs implementation inside ESP-IDF.

Everything is working as expected (not without some headaches but anyway) but now I'm facing some legal concerns about :

• 1 : You fork of the ESP-IDF
• 2 : The CODEC you implement which are license free for the encoder part but not for the decoder

So, question #1 : Does an commercial use of your fork of the ESP-IDF is possible (I supposed it has to follow the same license as the orginal IDF)

Question #2 : Do you have an idea regarding the legal part with these codecs? Am I still supposed to pay a license fee to Qualcomm and Sony ? If I'm not doing it, do I have the right to expose the compliance with these CODEC in my product description?

If you got answers to any of these questions it would help a lot.

[Vickykarthi32]

Aptx and Ldac need a licensed to use in commercial. If you have contacted Qualcomm or its licensed supplies you may get there own chip and there programing tools.