Embedded Linux Development using Yocto Projects - Second Edition

Managing software licensing with Poky

One important Poky feature is the ability to manage licenses. Most of the time, we, as developers, do not care about licenses because we keep our focus on our own bugs. However, when creating a product, it is very important to care and know about licenses and the kinds of licenses present in the product.

Poky keeps track of licenses, works with commercial and noncommercial licenses, and has a strategy to work with proprietary applications, at least during the development cycle.

One important thing to know, at first, is that a recipe is released under a certain license, and it represents a project released under a different license. The recipe and the project are two different entities and they have different ...