Type
Restructuring
State
Ongoing
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Project
Due to how these Yocto/OE layers interact with upstream layers (including oe-core), having parts of our layers licensed under Apache when most (if not all) of our upstream dependencies (and generally the entire ecosystem) are MIT, would pose a couple of issues:
- Using our layers would introduce a new license to a downstream consumer that needs to be assessed.
- Reusing parts of our code would pose an issue of relicensing on Oniro or the downstream side.
- Upstreaming Apache code would need relicensing on the Oniro side before upstream could accept contributions (unless upstream is up for a license addition which in most cases is not an option).
- Mistakes can happen and end up with "silent" relicensing in different situations.
To avoid all the above we propose to change all the existing Yocto/OE Apache-2.0 files in this repository to MIT.
More information is available here.
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