This week at LWN: LCA: Cooperative management of package copyright and licensing data

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Feb 3, 2010 11:26 AM EDT
LWN.net; By Jonathan Corbet
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Kate Stewart is the manager of the PowerPC team at Freescale. As such, she has a basic customer service problem to solve: people who buy a board from Freescale would like to have some sort of operating system to run on it. That system, of course, will be Linux; satisfying this requirement means that Freescale must operate as a sort of Linux distributor. At her linux.conf.au talk, Kate talked about a new initiative aimed at helping distributors to ensure that they are compliant with the licenses of the software they are shipping.

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