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Neil Cowburn - OpenNETCF

October 13, 2005

HP shipping OpenNETCF code in their hw6500 devices

This was just I happened to stumble across when I was digging around in the Windows folder on my HP iPAQ hw6515:

gl_opennetcf.png

The hw6500 series devices have an integrated GPS receiver and the devices ship with a piece of software called Quick GPS Connection from Global Locate Inc (their site seemed to be down at the time of writing). It turns out the Quick GPS Connection uses the two OpenNETCF components you can see in the image above.

Also, it's good to see that the folks at Global Locate have read my blog at some point (they use my System.Reflection.AssemblyFileVersionAttribute workaround).

Friday, October 14, 2005 3:38:13 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
It is good to see your hard work being taken up, and its quality recognized. Well done!

I know your licence is very unrestrictive, but out of interest, has HP or Global Locate had to recognize OpenNETCF anywhere, or is it allowed to consider this code as "it's own"?

I ask because our legal department rejected our use of these libraries...
Andrew
Friday, October 14, 2005 4:29:17 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
Neither Global Locate nor HP have had to recognize OpenNETCF in any way. In fact, when I stumbled across this, it was by complete accident and was the first I'd heard of its use.
Neil
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