Is OpenEmbedded Free?
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I am trying to build an OS for the Ben Nanonote pocket computer, which runs MIPS architecture. I am thinking of doing this with the OpenEmbedded framework, which the wikipedia site says is MIT license. Since I did not see OE in the Trisquel repo's, I am guessing that it is not Free?
If you want to check it out, the site is:
http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/Main_Page
I am not familiar with OpenEmbedded framework so I can't totally comment to its freedom status. However if it is MIT license that is a free software license. Just because something is not in the Trisquel repositories does not mean you can automatically conclude that it is non-free. There is free software that is not in the repositories. We get our packages mostly from upstream so for example if Ubuntu or Debian has not packaged a particular program it is unlikely it is included in Trisquel even if it is free (unless someone specially added it)
Ok, thanks. I will do my own thinking. Since the core is MIT license and you add your own components, as long as I retain my commitment to Libre software, it should be a bright future.
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