By Bruno Zoppis (LinuxDevices.com)
Open source software is of increasing use in embedded systems. The use of GPL software in consumer products may create issues for device manufacturers who need to protect proprietary code or to guarantee their systems' behavior. In this article, we study the impact of the use of both GPL v2 and v3 in consumer products, and how using secure virtualization along with hypervisor technology can help device manufacturers comply with these GPL licenses while protecting business-critical IP (intellectual property) and system behavior.

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