Releasing software
When releasing a product based on the Yocto project, we have to consider that we are building on top of a multitude of different open source projects, each with different licensing requirements.
At the minimum, your embedded product will contain a bootloader (probably u-boot), the Linux kernel, and a root filesystem with one or more applications. Both u-boot and the Linux kernel are licensed under the General Public License version 2 (GPLv2), and the root filesystem could contain a variety of programs with different licenses.
All open source licenses allow you to sell a commercial product with a mixture of proprietary and open licenses as long as they are independent and the product complies with all the open source licenses. ...
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