On Tue, 23 May 2023 at 13:30, <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am reaching out to seek clarification regarding the license compatibility > within theOpenEmbedded Meta-Security layer, particularly in relation to the > presence of LGPL, GPL 2.0 and GPL 3.0 licenses and the ambiguity in the > license information of the ClamAV tool and other Security tools in > meta-security layer. > > We have noticed that the meta-security layer within the OpenEmbedded project > contains several components with LGPL, GPL 2.0 and GPL 3.0 licenses. > Additionally, there is ambiguity regarding the license information for the > ClamAV tool, as the OpenEmbedded recipe documentation indicates it is LGPL ( > https://layers.openembedded.org/layerindex/recipe/32867/ ), while the ClamAV > documentation specifies GPL 2.0 ( https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/clamav ).
I believe this is incorrectly written in the openembedded recipe and the component is indeed GPL 2.0. CC Armin. > 1. Please clarify on the ambiguity of license information for recipes and > whether these recipes can be integrated into commercial products that > necessitates strict adherence to licensing requirements. > 2. Which license will apply to the Image that is bitbaked with openembedded > recipes? will the license be MIT as Yocto project. We do need to fix the clamav recipe to provide correct metadata (it seems like a simple mistake in an isolated recipe), but otherwise these are the questions for your company's legal department, not the open source community. The community does not offer legal advice, but we do know that a lot of successful products are shipped that are built using Yocto project, and presumbly companies are able to handle legal risks and requirements. The image will contain code under many different licenses coming from components such as clamav, and if you ship it in a product, you must fulfil the requirements of all those licenses. Alex
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