which licenses are allowed for OpenBMC projects

[Kurt Taylor]

The best answer is: it depends. I would recommend checking with your
legal team on what you will be able to do for your custom product
implementation.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, but generally speaking, you can pull in
other "packages" without worry about them being viral infected. The
term "parts" can mean many things, you will need to figure out whether
just code is being pulled into a existing tree with a different
license, or if you are talking about shipping an additional package
with your product.

Open source licenses and their viral effects:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_license
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_software_license
https://www.toptal.com/open-source/developers-guide-to-open-source-licenses

Kurt Taylor (krtaylor)

On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 4:51 AM Wim Vervoorn <wvervoorn at eltan.com> wrote:
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> If we create a custom implementation for an OpenBMC project which we deliver to a customer can we include parts that are under a BSD or a proprietary license? In this case the Yocto files would be in the tree but the code pulled in could be binary or a BSD repository?
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> For us it’s important to make sure we understand correctly what the possibilities are.
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