I don't think any manufacturer has a direct connection to the Beeb, it's all via aggregators - TuneIn, vTuner etc. I imagine but cannot be sure that the manufacturer buys a licence to use the aggregators stream per device and the aggregators in turn buy a licence from the Beeb. Michael will probably be able to throw my light on the commerciality of the arrangement in view of the official Logitech applets for Touch & Radio. Triode's plugin is probably a bit unusual in this regard in that it talks direct to the BBC servers via the XML feeds that they have been publicising since at least 2008.
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