Managing software licensing with Poky

One important Poky feature is the ability to manage licenses. Most of the time, we only care about our bugs. However, managing licenses and the kinds of licenses used is crucial when creating a product.

Poky keeps track of licenses in every recipe. In addition, it has a strategy to work with proprietary applications during the development cycle.

Note

An important thing to know is that a recipe is released under a specific license and represents a project released under a different license. Therefore, the recipe and the project are two separate entities with specific licenses, so the two licenses must be considered part of the product.

In most recipes, information is a comment containing the copyright, license, and author name; this information pertains to the recipe itself. Then, there is a set of variables to describe the package license, and they are as follows:

• LICENSE: This describes the license under which the package was...