NimBLE-Arduino for commercial use

[Clcudio10]

Hi, in our company we are developing a board that include a esp32c3 module. We have implemented the host BLE host level with this library (NimBLE-Arduino). We need some information before sell our product. We think that is necessary to certificate the final product through the SIG, despite the module is already certified itself. Looking for information we find that the module have a QDID 239440 and the ESP-NimBLE have a QDID 141499, but with the NimBLE-Arduino implemetation is usable the same QDID? In general, has anyone ever found themselves in this situation?

[h2zero]

Great question, this library merely wraps the esp-nimble code and reorganizes it to compile in the Arduino IDE. That said there are some minor, changes/bugfixes but they should not affect the certification of the underlying esp-nimble code.

[Clcudio10]

Thank you for the reply! I'm starting to gather information about the qualification, and I think use or not the QDID of the esp-nimble change all the process because you pass from EPL (that i still haven't understood if it is free), to a complete qualification process that, looking at the fees, is really expensive for a small company like mine. Futhermore, not having yet started the proceedings i don't know if and how they verify how you implement the host BLE. In this situation i also slightly "modify" this library uncommenting a couple of voice in nimconfig.h for my needs, although that file is obviously there for that purpose, but i think it cannot be considered a real modification, at least in the sense of this library.