[oe] OpenEmbedded and the Yocto Project

[Cliff Brake]

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Richard Purdie <rpurdie at 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?

Thanks,
Cliff

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