Wireless Communication Library Licensing
Wireless Communication Library has three different Licence types: Lite, Personal and Developer. Each License can be either Commercial or Non Commercial.
All Licences apart from the Non Commericial edition can be used for developing commercial applications. All Licenses are completely free of any royalty payments.
WCL is licenced per developer. A single developer can use WCL on any number of his or her PCs, If there will be a number of different developers developing your project you will need to purchase multiple licences. Once purchased WCL can be used for developing an unlimited number of applications.
Update Rules
- Lite Commercial and Lite Non Commercial Licence - no free updates;
- Personal Non Commercial Licence - 3 months free updates;
- Personal Commercial Licence - 6 months free updates;
- Developer Non Commercial Licence - 6 months free updates;
- Developer Commercial Licence - 12 months free updates.
After the Free Update period has expired you can then renew your subscriptions with 30% discount.
Licence Comparison Table
| Lite | Personal | Developer | |
|---|---|---|---|
| UNICODE | YES | YES | YES |
| BlueSoleil Bluetooth Drivers | YES | YES | YES |
| Microsoft Bluetooth Drivers | YES | YES | YES |
| Toshiba Bluetooth Drivers | YES | YES | YES |
| WidComm Bluetooth Drivers | YES | YES | YES |
| IrDA | YES | YES | YES |
| Serial Ports | YES | YES | YES |
| WiFi | YES | YES | YES |
| Enumerating Local Bluetooth Radios | YES | YES | YES |
| Managing Local Bluetooth Radios | YES | YES | YES |
| Changing Name of Local Bluetooth Radios | YES | YES | YES |
| Searching for Bluetooth Devices | YES | YES | YES |
| Enumerating Buetooth Services | YES | YES | YES |
| Searching for IrDA Devices | YES | YES | YES |
| Enumerating Serial Ports | YES | YES | YES |
| Detection Available Transports (SmartDetect) | YES | YES | YES |
| Monitoring Available Transports (SmartDetect) | YES | YES | YES |
| Connecting to RFCOMM based service | YES | YES | YES |
| Connecting to IrDA Device | YES | YES | YES |
| Connecting to Serial Device | YES | YES | YES |
| Bluetooth ObjectPush Profile | YES | YES | YES |
| IrDA ObjectPush Profile | YES | YES | YES |
| Bluetooth FileTransfer Profile | YES | YES | YES |
| IrDA FileTransfer Profile | YES | YES | YES |
| Nokia Specified Services (Bluetooth and IrDA) | YES | YES | YES |
| Bluetooth Manual Pairing | YES | YES | YES |
| Bluetooth Vitual COM Ports | YES | YES | YES |
| Enumerating WiFi Adapters | YES | YES | YES |
| Managing WiFi Adapters | YES | YES | YES |
| Enumerating WiFi Networks | YES | YES | YES |
| Enumerating WiFi Profiles | YES | YES | YES |
| Managing WiFi Profiles | YES | YES | YES |
| Connecting to WiFi Network | YES | YES | YES |
| Disconnecting from WiFi Network | YES | YES | YES |
| Bluetooth Automaticaly Pairing (SilentAuth) | YES | YES | |
| Special Features for Bluetooth Proximity Marketing | YES Only Commercial Licence | YES Only Commercial Licence | |
| vCard Parser | YES | YES | |
| Bluetooth RFCOMM Based Server | YES | ||
| IrDA Server | YES | ||
| Bluetooth ObjectPush Profile Server | YES | ||
| IrDA ObjectPush Profile Server | YES | ||
| Life-Time Free Technical Support | YES | YES | YES |
| Free Updates (see above) | 3 or 6 months | 6 or 12 months |