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<p>Created page with &quot;== Yocto Project - Set Proprietary license for a recipe == &#039;&#039;&#039;CLOSED&#039;&#039;&#039; is not &#039;&#039;&#039;commercial&#039;&#039;&#039;/&#039;&#039;&#039;proprietary&#039;&#039;&#039;! A common misconception is that setting &#039;&#039;&#039;LICENSE = &quot;CLOSE...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>== Yocto Project - Set Proprietary license for a recipe ==<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;CLOSED&#039;&#039;&#039; is not &#039;&#039;&#039;commercial&#039;&#039;&#039;/&#039;&#039;&#039;proprietary&#039;&#039;&#039;!<br /> <br /> A common misconception is that setting &#039;&#039;&#039;LICENSE = &quot;CLOSED&quot;&#039;&#039;&#039; means the recipe in question is closed source, respectively &#039;&#039;&#039;proprietary&#039;&#039;&#039;. <br /> <br /> This is not the actual case: the license value &#039;&#039;&#039;CLOSED&#039;&#039;&#039; has the meaning “do not care about the license of this recipe”. <br /> <br /> This effectively disables all license tracking for this recipe and should be avoided.<br /> <br /> The correct way to set a &#039;&#039;&#039;proprietary&#039;&#039;&#039;, nonstandard license is<br /> <br /> LICENSE = &quot;Proprietary&quot;<br /> <br /> This often correlates with being commercial, which is expressed by the flag<br /> <br /> LICENSE_FLAGS = &quot;commercial&quot;<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> ---<br /> <br /> [https://hub.mender.io/t/understanding-licenses-in-a-yocto-project-build/4848 Credits]</div>

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