The Compact OSADL Online Lecture (COOL) September edition is presenting a tool to integrate OSSelot curation data into OpenEmbedded and Yocto build systems. The OSSelot curation database has been topic of several COOL editions in the past where the general concept of the project and the different ways of using the provided compliance data as well as the curation and contribution process have been demonstrated. Since the conception of the project, not only the amount of data has increased but also the availability of tools to work with this data and integrate it into other projects. This is an important step towards automating FOSS compliance tasks and as such a key aspect for the data’s practical application. One of these projects is the meta-osselot layer for integrating OSSelot curation data into OpenEmbedded and Yocto build systems.
In this COOL edition, Jasper Orschulko, the project’s creator and maintainer, will present the genesis of meta-osselot as well as its current status and plans for the future. First in theory and in the second part in practice, he will explain and demonstrate the functionality of the tool and show how it can be used in a development project to create an SBOM, obtain available compliance data from the OSSelot database and list those components for which curated data are not yet available. Anyone who builds software for embedded systems with OpenEmbedded or Yocto can learn how to simplify and accelerate FOSS compliance tasks by automating them as far as possible without compromising their quality.
The COOL edition takes place on September 25, 2024 from 2pm to 4pm CEST. Participation in COOL is free of charge. More details as well as the registration form can be found on the COOL event page.