</para>
<para>
- For cases where you can substitute something and still maintain functionality, the Poky website will make
- available a 'de-featured' BSP completely free of the encumbered IP.
- In that case you can use the substitution directly and without any further licensing requirements.
- If present, this fully 'de-featured' BSP will be named meta-<bsp_name> (i.e. the
- normal default naming convention).
- If available, this is the simplest the most preferred option.
+ For cases where you can substitute something and still maintain functionality,
+ the Yocto Project website at
+ <ulink url='http://yoctoproject.org/download/board-support-package-bsp-downloads'></ulink>
+ will make available a 'de-featured' BSP completely free of the encumbered IP.
+ In that case you can use the substitution directly and without any further licensing
+ requirements.
+ If present, this fully 'de-featured' BSP will be named appropiately different
+ than the normal encumbered BSP.
+ If available, this substitution is the simplest and most preferred option.
This, of course, assumes the resulting functionality meets requirements.
</para>
<para>
- If however, a non-encumbered version is unavailable or the 'free' version would provide unsuitable
- functionality or quality, an encumbered version can be used.
- Encumbered versions of a BSP are given names of the form meta-<bsp_name>-nonfree.
+ If however, a non-encumbered version is unavailable or the 'free' version
+ would provide unsuitable functionality or quality, you can use
+ an encumbered version.
</para>
<para>
<para>
Get a license key (or keys) for the encumbered BSP by visiting
+ a website and providing the name of the BSB and your email address
+ through a web form.
+ </para>
+
+<!--
<ulink url='https://pokylinux.org/bsp-keys.html'>https://pokylinux.org/bsp-keys.html</ulink>
and give the name of the BSP and your e-mail address in the web form.
</para>
+ COMMENT: This link is not implemented at this point.
+
<programlisting>
[screenshot of dialog box]
</programlisting>
+-->
+
<para>
After agreeing to any applicable license terms, the
BSP key(s) will be immediately sent to the address
encumbered BSP.
These prompts usually take the form of instructions
needed to manually fetch the encumbered package(s)
- and md5 sums into the required directory (e.g. the poky/build/downloads)
+ and md5 sums into the required directory
+ (e.g. the <filename>poky/build/downloads</filename>).
Once the manual package fetch has been
completed, restart the build to continue where
it left off.
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Get a full-featured BSP recipe rather than a key, by
- visiting
- <ulink url='https://pokylinux.org/bsps.html'>https://pokylinux.org/bsps.html</ulink>.
- Accepting the license agreement(s) presented will
- subsequently allow you to download a tarball
- containing a full-featured BSP that is legally cleared for
- your use by the just-given license agreement(s).
- This method will also allow the encumbered image to
- be built with no change at all to the normal build
- process.
- </para>
+ Get a full-featured BSP recipe rather than a key.
+ You can do this by visiting the applicable BSP download page from the Yocto
+ Project website at
+ <ulink url='http://yoctoproject.org/download/board-support-package-bsp-downloads'></ulink>.
+ BSP tarballs that have proprietary information can be downloaded after agreeing
+ to licensing requirements as part of the download process.
+ Obtaining the code this way allows you to build an encumbered image with
+ no changes at all as compared to the normal build.
+ </para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
<para>
Note that the third method is also the only option available
- when downloading pre-compiled images generated from
- non-free BSPs.
- Those images are likewise available at
- <ulink url='https://pokylinux.org/bsps.html'>https://pokylinux.org/bsps.html</ulink>.
+ when downloading pre-compiled images generated from non-free BSPs.
+ Those images are likewise available at from the Yocto Project website.
</para>
</section>