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I want ot take copyright information of all open source components which are used for embedded system.Is there any short way to get the copyright information of OSS components?

Kishor Fulzele
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    [Duplicate](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/39018941/licenses-for-packagegroups-and-images-on-yocto) (given the "yocto" tag)? – Roman Khimov Oct 17 '16 at 09:29

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Well, you've got your ${TMPDIR}/deploy/licences which has subdirectories for all recipes built. Those subdirectories inludes copies of both the license-files from those recipes, as well as the generic licenses for the declared licenses of those recipes.

There is also a subdirectory <image-name>-DATETIME, that includes eg a license.manifest, that lists all packages installed in the image, together with their licenses.

Anders
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That very much depends on your concrete setup; which of course you completely fail to describe here. How should we know which OSS components you are using in your embedded system?!

But the general answer is: there is no detour. When your product is using OSS components, and you want to "track" that; then you have to do the tracking work.

That means:

  1. You have to create a catalog of all OSS components that are included in your product (and the version in use). Ideally, that would be no-op, because your build / library setup already makes such a distinction.
  2. Then you use that catalog as input, to determine the licence for each and any of these components.
  3. Finally, depending on the specific licence, you determine the effects of using OSS component X for your product.
GhostCat
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