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*[[https://elinux.org/Legal_Issues This article]] provides an overview of license-related legal issues
*Yocto build system generates automatically a manifest file to make the compliance management easier. For more details, please refer to [[https://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.8/dev-manual/dev-manual.html#maintaining-open-source-license-compliance-during-your-products-lifecycle|this link]]
=Certifications=
In general, all the products must conform to a set of standards in order to get the certificates required to be sold ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CE_marking CE marking] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_Declaration_of_Conformity FCC_Declaration_of_Conformity] are two well-known examples.
In many cases, software modifications to the Board Support Package (BSP) or the user applications are required to pass the compliance tests dictated by these regulations (*). In a typical scenario, these modifications are usually carried out after the development of the user applications. Nevertheless, these changes must be committed to the source repositories in order to be part of the production images that are stored into the product.
(*) A common example is the enabling of the spread-spectrum technique to reduce the electromagnetic emission peak associated with a digital clock, which is usually implemented at boot loader level.
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