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diff --git a/docs/ipcompliance.md b/docs/ipcompliance.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..01540a8 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/ipcompliance.md @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +# IP Compliance + +## linux-firmware-rpidistro + +By default, some of the machine configurations recommend packages for the +WiFi/BT firmware, provided by +[linux-firmware-rpidistro](https://github.com/RPi-Distro/firmware-nonfree). +This package includes some firmware blobs under the `Synaptics` license which +could carry a legal risk: one of the clauses can be (at least theoretically) +used as a `killswitch`. This was +[reported](https://github.com/RPi-Distro/firmware-nonfree/issues/29) in the +upstream repository. + +You can find the full license text body in the content of the above mentioned +package. + +Due to the above, the build system will only allow this recipe to be built if +the user acknowledges this risk by adding the following configuration: + + LICENSE_FLAGS_ACCEPTED = "synaptics-killswitch" + +You can provide this configuration as part of your `local.conf`, `distro.conf`, +etc. |