couple questions for OpenBMC - license

[Joseph Reynolds]

On 2019-01-17 19:55, Brenden Lai wrote:
> Thanks Nancy .
> 
> FROM: Nancy Yuen <yuenn at google.com>
>  SENT: Friday, January 18, 2019 2:29 AM
>  TO: John Wang <wangzqbj at inspur.com>
>  CC: Brenden Lai <Brenden_Lai at jabil.com>; openbmc at lists.ozlabs.org
>  SUBJECT: Re: couple questions for OpenBMC
> 
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 2:34 AM John Wang <wangzqbj at inspur.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 3:52 PM Brenden Lai <Brenden_Lai at jabil.com>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi
>>> 
>>> I have couple questions about OpenBMC .
>> 
>>> 
>>> 1.if I decide use OpenBMC solution , Does it mean I should put
>> all BMC source code on github including some commercial software ?
> 
> I don't know what you mean by commercial software. In OpenBMC we
> strive to use open source software.

I understood this question was about the license agreement.  If I 
interpret Brenden's question correctly, the OpenBMC project retrieves 
code from many other projects and is itself licensed for use variously 
with the MIT and Apache licenses which are permissive and allow someone 
to use the code in a commercial project.

Additionally, the build process has an option to create a "bill of 
materials" (BOM) which lists all source projects retrieved along with 
their licenses.  However, I don't have direct experience with this, and 
you would typically have your lawyers review your situation.

See for example:

https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/blob/master/poky/LICENSE

https://github.com/openbmc/bmcweb/blob/master/LICENCE

https://github.com/openbmc/phosphor-dbus-interfaces/blob/master/LICENSE

- Joseph

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>>> 
>>> Thanks -Brenden
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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>>> 
>>> Brenden Lai
>>> SR. BMC Design Engineer
>>> E&I, Jabil Design Services
>>> 
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