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Embedded Linux Development Using Yocto Project Cookbook

You're reading from   Embedded Linux Development Using Yocto Project Cookbook Practical recipes to help you leverage the power of Yocto to build exciting Linux-based systems

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788399210
Length 456 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Alex Gonzalez Alex Gonzalez
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Title Page
Dedication
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Foreword
Contributors
Preface
1. The Build System FREE CHAPTER 2. The BSP Layer 3. The Software Layer 4. Application Development 5. Debugging, Tracing, and Profiling 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Working with open source and proprietary code


It is common for an embedded product to be built upon an open source system like the one built by Yocto, and to include proprietary software that adds value and specializes the product. This proprietary part usually contains intellectual property and needs to be protected, and it's important to understand how it can coexist with open source code.

This recipe will discuss some examples of open source packages commonly found on embedded products and will briefly explain how to use proprietary software with them.

How to do it...

Open source licenses can be broadly divided into two categories based on whether they are:

  • Permissive: These are similar to Internet Software Consortium (ISC), MIT, and BSD licenses. They have few requirements attached to them and they just require us to preserve copyright and limited warranty notices.
  • Restrictive: These are similar to the GPL, and bind us to not only distribute the source code and modifications, either with...
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