[Interest] Yocto is application or device creation license???

[Jérôme Godbout]

Hi,

I have a client who is looking for a GUI stack for their SPA devices. The device use a yocto we build for them. The Fuzzy license of Qt is not very clear on where does Yocto build fall in term of licensing.

My understanding if fall into the Linux embedded and force them to go into the device license I think. But this will be a show stopper for them if they have to paid royalty fee. Does Yocto Linux count as Linux Desktop, since we are building a desktop on arm chipset in the end.

The device creation is just plain impossible, the royalty fee is above the cost of the MCU itself, which is a no go.

I feel like I always end up in that impossible licensing problems with Qt, the embedded license is out of touch aside from huge expensive system like car!

So far, we look at Qt for hospital bed, SPA, car charging units… The price is just a show stopper at each time…


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