12. Licensing and Compliance
A fully functional Linux OS stack comprises many hundreds, possibly thousands, of open source software packages. These software packages are released by their authors under the terms and conditions of a rather large variety of open source licenses. Virtually all of these licenses require that end users are given access to the license texts to inform them about their rights and potential duties when using the software. As a system builder who is building an entire system from many different open source software packages, you are required to collect all the license information and provide it to the users of your system. In ...
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