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handbook: add BSP click-through licensing section
Add a section to the BSB Developer's Guide outlining the motivation and procedures for click-through BSP licensing support. The corresponding build system support hasn't been implemented yet; this is being added now mainly as a guideline wrt future intentions. Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@intel.com>
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<section id='bsp-click-through-licensing'>
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<title>BSP 'Click-through' Licensing Procedure</title>
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<note><para> This section is here as a description of how
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click-through licensing is expected to work, and is
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not yet not impemented.
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</para></note>
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<para>
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In some cases, a BSP may contain separately licensed IP
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(Intellectual Property) for a component, which imposes
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upon the user a requirement to accept the terms of a
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'click-through' license. Once the license is accepted
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(in whatever form that may be, see details below) the
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Poky build system can then build and include the
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corresponding component in the final BSP image. Some
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affected components may be essential to the normal
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functioning of the system and have no 'free' replacement
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i.e. the resulting system would be non-functional
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without them. Other components may be simply
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'good-to-have' or purely elective, or if essential
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nonetheless have a 'free' (possibly less-capable)
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version which may substituted for in the BSP recipe.
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</para>
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<para>
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For the latter cases, where it is possible to do so from
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a functionality perspective, the Poky website will make
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available a 'de-featured' BSP completely free of
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encumbered IP, which can be used directly and without
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any further licensing requirements. If present, this
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fully 'de-featured' BSP will be named meta-bsp (i.e. the
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normal default naming convention). This is the simplest
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and therefore preferred option if available, assuming
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the resulting functionality meets requirements.
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</para>
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<para>
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If however, a non-encumbered version is unavailable or
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the 'free' version would provide unsuitable
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functionality or quality, an encumbered version can be
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used. Encumbered versions of a BSP are given names of
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the form meta-bsp-nonfree. There are several ways
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within the Poky build system to satisfy the licensing
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requirements for an encumbered BSP, in roughly the
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following order of preference:
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</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Get a license key (or keys) for the encumbered BSP
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by
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visiting <ulink url='https://pokylinux.org/bsp-keys.html'>https://pokylinux.org/bsp-keys.html</ulink>
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and give the web form there the name of the BSP
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and your e-mail address.
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</para>
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<programlisting>
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[screenshot of dialog box]
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</programlisting>
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<para>
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After agreeing to any applicable license terms, the
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BSP key(s) will be immediately sent to the address
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given and can be used by specifying BSPKEY_<keydomain>
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environment variables when building the image:
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</para>
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<programlisting>
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$ BSPKEY_<keydomain>=<key> bitbake poky-image-sato
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</programlisting>
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<para>
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This will allow the encumbered image to be built
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with no change at all to the normal build process.
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</para>
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Equivalently and probably more conveniently, a line
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for each key can instead be put into the user's
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local.conf file.
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</para>
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<para>
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The <keydomain> component of the
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BSPKEY_<keydomain> is required because there
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may be multiple licenses in effect for a give BSP; a
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given <keydomain> in such cases corresponds to
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a particular license. In order for an encumbered
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BSP encompassing multiple key domains to be built
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successfully, a <keydomain> entry for each
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applicable license must be present in local.conf or
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supplied on the command-line.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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Do nothing - build as you normally would, and follow
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any license prompts that originate from the
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encumbered BSP (the build will cleanly stop at this
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point). These usually take the form of instructions
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needed to manually fetch the encumbered package(s)
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and md5 sums into e.g. the poky/build/downloads
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directory. Once the manual package fetch has been
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completed, restarting the build will continue where
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it left off, this time without the prompt since the
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license requirements will have been satisfied.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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Get a full-featured BSP recipe rather than a key, by
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visiting
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<ulink url='https://pokylinux.org/bsps.html'>https://pokylinux.org/bsps.html</ulink>.
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Accepting the license agreement(s) presented will
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subsequently allow you to download a tarball
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containing a full-featured BSP legally cleared for
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your use by the just-given license agreement(s).
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This method will also allow the encumbered image to
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be built with no change at all to the normal build
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process.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>
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Note that method 3 is also the only option available
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when downloading pre-compiled images generated from
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non-free BSPs. Those images are likewise available at
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<ulink url='https://pokylinux.org/bsps.html'>https://pokylinux.org/bsps.html</ulink>.
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</para>
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</section>
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</chapter>
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