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== Yocto Project - Set Proprietary license for a recipe ==

'''CLOSED''' is not '''commercial'''/'''proprietary'''!

A common misconception is that setting '''LICENSE = "CLOSED"''' means the recipe in question is closed source, respectively '''proprietary'''. 

This is not the actual case: the license value '''CLOSED''' has the meaning “do not care about the license of this recipe”. 

This effectively disables all license tracking for this recipe and should be avoided.

The correct way to set a '''proprietary''', nonstandard license is

 LICENSE = "Proprietary"

This often correlates with being commercial, which is expressed by the flag

 LICENSE_FLAGS = "commercial"

The commercial flag is automatically expanded with the recipe name, and can then be matched, therefore allowed for the build, as outlined in the first paragraph.

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