Analyzing your system for compliance

The Yocto build system makes it easy to provide auditing information to our legal advisers. This recipe will explain how.

How to do it...

Under tmp/deploy/licenses, we find a directory list of packages (including their corresponding licenses) and an image folder with a package and license manifest.

For the example reduced image provided before, image-small, we have the following:

tmp/deploy/licenses/image-small-initramfs-wandboard-<timestamp>/package.manifest 
base-files 
base-passwd 
busybox 
busybox-syslog 
busybox-udhcpc 
initscripts 
initscripts-functions 
libc6 
run-postinsts 
sysvinit 
sysvinit-inittab 
sysvinit-pidof 
update-alternatives-opkg 
update-rc.d 

And the corresponding tmp/deploy/licenses/image-small-initramfs-wandboard-<timestamp>/license.manifest file excerpt is as follows:

PACKAGE NAME: base-files                                                         
PACKAGE VERSION: 3.0.14                                                  ...