From d16cdfae31e82e1760e8b04e0d40ab8fedc88b2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Opdenacker Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2022 11:14:46 +0200 Subject: ref-manual: terms.rst: add SBOM and SPDX terms (From yocto-docs rev: 2c53ac40e99a7957736276c5bf925b3f81544aa5) Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- documentation/ref-manual/terms.rst | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) (limited to 'documentation') diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/terms.rst b/documentation/ref-manual/terms.rst index 40209528ba..4711d7df7b 100644 --- a/documentation/ref-manual/terms.rst +++ b/documentation/ref-manual/terms.rst @@ -321,6 +321,23 @@ universal, the list includes them just in case: :term:`build host` and other components, that can work on specific hardware. + :term:`SBOM` + This term means *Software Bill of Materials*. When you distribute + software, it offers a description of all the components you used, + their corresponding licenses, their dependencies, the changes that were + applied and the known vulnerabilities that were fixed. + + This can be used by the recipients of the software to assess + their exposure to license compliance and security vulnerability issues. + + See the `Software Supply Chain `__ + article on Wikipedia for more details. + + The OpenEmbedded Build System can generate such documentation for your + project, in :term:`SPDX` format, based on all the metadata it used to + build the software images. See the ":ref:`dev-manual/common-tasks:creating + a software bill of materials`" section of the Development Tasks manual. + :term:`Source Directory` This term refers to the directory structure created as a result of creating a local copy of the ``poky`` Git @@ -381,6 +398,15 @@ universal, the list includes them just in case: ":ref:`overview-manual/development-environment:repositories, tags, and branches`" section in the Yocto Project Overview and Concepts Manual. + :term:`SPDX` + This term means *Software Package Data Exchange*, and is used as a open + standard for providing a *Software Bill of Materials* (:term:`SBOM`). + This standard is developed through a `Linux Foundation project + `__ and is used by the OpenEmbedded Build System to + provide an :term:`SBOM` associated to each a software image. + + For details, see Wikipedia's `SPDX page `__. + :term:`Sysroot` When cross-compiling, the target file system may be differently laid out and contain different things compared to the host system. The concept -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf