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From: Philip Balister <philip@balister.org>
To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: OpenEmbedded and the Yocto Project
Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 17:01:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CD5C21F.2000006@balister.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=9baSJYxwULah-FNS50gaK9bhF=aBG-4-ChrrP@mail.gmail.com>

On 11/06/2010 01:26 PM, Cliff Brake wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Richard Purdie<rpurdie@rpsys.net>  wrote:
>
>> So what do I mean by hard? First there are the conversations with your
>> legal department where some questions arise:
>>
>> * How do you ensure license compliance?
>> * When someone makes a change, how do you know the license is still
>>   correct?
>> * You've mixing GPLv2 and v3? How are you ensuring no contamination?
>> <cue a long discussion which I'd bet most companies have>
>
> Is GPLv3 the issue here with patent, DMC, and Tivoization issues?  Is
> the solution to simply not have GPLv3 software in a device?
>
> Are there other license issues that companies are worried about?

Cliff, I think each company has it's own licensing issues. The important 
thing for OE is to make sure our license fields are accurate.

Philip



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-06 21:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-05 16:07 OpenEmbedded and the Yocto Project Richard Purdie
2010-11-05 16:36 ` Paul Menzel
2010-11-05 19:24   ` Richard Purdie
2010-11-05 20:45     ` Frans Meulenbroeks
2010-11-05 16:37 ` Chris Larson
2010-11-06 17:26 ` Cliff Brake
2010-11-06 17:44   ` Stefan Schmidt
2010-11-06 21:01   ` Philip Balister [this message]
2010-11-07  7:26     ` Tian, Kevin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-11-02 14:16 Philip Balister
2010-11-02 14:42 ` Koen Kooi
2010-11-02 19:55   ` Scott Garman
2010-11-02 22:00     ` Leon Woestenberg
2010-11-02 22:11       ` Scott Garman
2010-11-02 22:24   ` Richard Purdie
2010-11-02 22:44     ` Khem Raj
2010-11-03  9:09     ` Petr Štetiar

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