Commercial usage of Yocto

Commercial usage of Yocto

[Kumita Bruce]

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Yocto experts,

I am a learner of Yocto, Yocto is a very good tool to build images for
embedded devices.

I have one question, can Yocto be used for commercial purpose? If the
answer is yes, what should I do before using it for commercial purpose?


Cheers,

Bruce

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Re: Commercial usage of Yocto

[Tomas Frydrych]

Hi,

On 04/06/13 05:35, Kumita Bruce wrote:
> I have one question, can Yocto be used for commercial purpose? If the
> answer is yes, what should I do before using it for commercial purpose? 

Yocto is used in scores of a great variety of commercial products out
there, which is facilitated by the broad MIT license the framework is
released under. There is nothing special you have to do to use it
commercially.

When you ship your product, you will need, of course, to comply with the
licenses of the software packages that your device uses. Yocto is set up
to facilitate this, see
http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/mega-manual/mega-manual.html#maintaining-open-source-license-compliance-during-your-products-lifecycle.

Tomas

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Re: Commercial usage of Yocto

[Jack Mitchell]

On 04/06/13 05:35, Kumita Bruce wrote:
> Yocto experts,
>
> I am a learner of Yocto, Yocto is a very good tool to build images for
> embedded devices.
>
> I have one question, can Yocto be used for commercial purpose? If the
> answer is yes, what should I do before using it for commercial purpose?
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bruce
>
>

The important legal aspect in using the Yocto Project is not the tools 
used to build the embedded device images, but the software that is 
included in the embedded device images.

All software packages in the Yocto Project are listed with their 
respective licences. I would suggest you do some reading on Open Source 
licences (GPL, LGPL, BSD etc...) and understand the differences between 
the licensing implications of shipped and non-shipped software.

Regards,

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   Jack Mitchell (jack@embed.me.uk)
   Embedded Systems Engineer
   http://www.embed.me.uk

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