On 5/23/23 7:53 AM, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
On Tue, 23 May 2023 at 13:30, <cheerala.roh...@spacelabs.com> 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.
Yes indeed its incorrect. Patches welcome.
-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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