2 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/meta-fri2/README b/meta-fri2/README
index 2208392f..a8661744 100644
--- a/meta-fri2/README
+++ b/meta-fri2/README
@@ -113,6 +113,21 @@ At the end of a successful build, you should have a live image that
 you can boot from a USB flash drive (see instructions on how to do
 that below, in the section 'Booting the images from /binary').
 
+NOTE: The 'fri2' machine will include support for hardware video
+acceleration via gstreamer if and only if the "commercial" string is
+added to the the LICENSE_FLAGS_WHITELIST variable in your local.conf.
+
+For example:
+
+  LICENSE_FLAGS_WHITELIST = "license_emgd-driver-bin_1.10 commercial"
+
+The reason this is needed is to prevent the image from including
+anything that might violate the license terms of the packages used to
+implement the the video acceleration feature, such as gst-ffmpeg and
+ffmpeg.  As always, please consult the licenses included in the
+specific packages for details if you use packages that require
+particular LICENSE_FLAGS.
+
 As an alternative to downloading the BSP tarball, you can also work
 directly from the meta-intel git repository.  For each BSP in the
 'meta-intel' repository, there are multiple branches, one
diff --git a/meta-fri2/conf/machine/fri2.conf b/meta-fri2/conf/machine/fri2.conf
index 56408f7e..bf7754fc 100644
--- a/meta-fri2/conf/machine/fri2.conf
+++ b/meta-fri2/conf/machine/fri2.conf
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ require conf/machine/include/tune-atom.inc
 require conf/machine/include/ia32-base.inc
 require conf/machine/include/meta-intel.inc
 
-VA_FEATURES ?= "gst-va-intel va-intel"
+VA_FEATURES = "${@bb.utils.contains("LICENSE_FLAGS_WHITELIST", \
+            "commercial", "gst-va-intel va-intel", "va-intel", d)}"
 
 MACHINE_FEATURES += "wifi 3g pcbios efi va-impl-mixvideo"
 MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS += "linux-firmware-iwlwifi-6000g2a-5 ${VA_FEATURES}"