From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-lb0-f175.google.com ([209.85.217.175]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SUGE4-0001Ol-IN for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 15 May 2012 13:47:36 +0200 Received: by lbol5 with SMTP id l5so4057759lbo.6 for ; Tue, 15 May 2012 04:37:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=FzbQIU7gs+2akPALdxXXxefPRyqddImnny8kMDPHAjY=; b=BGphiYZZZ14cQECt6Nu0cE9cq1LAlcA1x9Fb6tf79TUosUOaCVi+G6eIWHec/IMNX1 8RS8X9i3bRZWft7UZe6dcaimoosxePUqaC3xFSy4tqGHYrMrILRp6SZt/W01Ts0m8SIj M4JDlFEhur6hoNCx28gocOFFQsc4MS+hP99zQWnP0tIRj8VHC+w6nb4AZwzxwR8VnfDr GYXanB8bHUjCFnhaUDgOQM9GzpBib3bQAA0cELPz/zzb5t/vg1KbPqqbz5PQndc5Vvln RslixrdLZiw8CrtX8n64EieO+FvcN6sIl10CDuteM0O86Y8RI10wjDvM7GaR+NSAi9Dk LUhg== Received: by 10.152.128.137 with SMTP id no9mr12079680lab.2.1337081856579; Tue, 15 May 2012 04:37:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.121] ([84.49.231.147]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id tt8sm28209724lbb.16.2012.05.15.04.37.34 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 15 May 2012 04:37:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FB23F7C.1060302@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 13:35:24 +0200 From: Tasslehoff Kjappfot User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: <4FB0F450.7050404@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: License attributions for a system built with OpenEmbedded. X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 11:47:36 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 05/14/2012 11:24 PM, Khem Raj wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 5:02 AM, Tasslehoff Kjappfot > wrote: >> Hi. >> >> I have made a rootfs and an SDK with OE-classic. We use the SDK to >> compile our own application, which links dynamically with some open >> source libraries. >> >> I have listed the LGPL libraries our application uses and linked to >> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.txt, but I don't know how/if to >> attribute OpenEmbedded. Should I include attributions for every single >> open source software in the rootfs+SDK, or is it sufficient to say that >> I have compiled them using OpenEmbedded? > most part of OE metadata are MIT licensed some parts may be GPL > > well while booting you could use OE splash screen instead of your company one :) I'll see what I can do :) I've already written that I use OpenEmbedded as a build system, and included the MIT license. I also used create_manifest.sh from Arago to get a list of everything included in the rootfs. What I really wonder is if I must add all that information as well. I hereby guarantee that I won't take any answers as legal binding advice ;) - Tasslehoff