[yocto] Why use Yocto?

[Marlon Smith]

Wow, thanks everyone for the excellent replies.  I am a developer and
not much of a legal guy, so pointing out the licensing issues with
Ubuntu was especially helpful.

It sounds like we are going to choose Yocto for our product.

On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 17:42 +0200, Nicolas Dechesne wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Bob Cochran <yocto at mindchasers.com> wrote:
> >
> > How dp you plan to sell/market/license your Ubuntu based machine?
> >
> > Would you become an Ubuntu hardware partner?
> > http://www.ubuntu.com/partners/find-a-partner/hardware
> >
> > The scope of this partnership seems to be servers and desktops.  I assume
> > they also have something in the works for smart phone partners.
> >
> > However, I'm guessing you're building something that doesn't fit these
> > categories.
> >
> > I remember seeing various demo images over the years of Ubuntu running on
> > embedded hardware, but it always seems to fizzle out.  EmbeddedUbuntu on the
> > Ubuntu Wiki was last updated in 2009.
> >
> > But maybe you're talking with people at Canonical and they are telling you
> > something different? If so, please share.
> 
> i guess this is of interest for the discussion (from [1]):
> 
> ===
> 2. Your use of Ubuntu
> 
> You can download, install and receive updates to Ubuntu for free.
> Ubuntu is freely available to all users for personal, or in the case
> of organisations, internal use. It is provided for this use without
> warranty. All implied warranties are disclaimed to the fullest extent
> permitted at law.
> 
> You can modify Ubuntu for personal or internal use.
> You can make changes to Ubuntu for your own personal use or for your
> organisation’s own internal use.
> 
> You can redistribute Ubuntu, but only where there has been no
> modification to it.
> You can redistribute Ubuntu in its unmodified form, complete with the
> installer images and packages provided by Canonical (this includes the
> publication or launch of virtual machine images).
> 
> Any redistribution of modified versions of Ubuntu must be approved,
> certified or provided by Canonical if you are going to associate it
> with the Trademarks. Otherwise you must remove and replace the
> Trademarks and will need to recompile the source code to create your
> own binaries. This does not affect your rights under any open source
> licence applicable to any of the components of Ubuntu. If you need us
> to approve, certify or provide modified versions for redistribution
> you will require a licence agreement from Canonical, for which you may
> be required to pay. For further information, please contact us (as set
> out below).
> ===
> 
> IANAL... but i guess the last paragraph clarifies what you can do (or not).
> 
> [1] http://www.canonical.com/intellectual-property-rights-policy


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