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saphid--frame-control/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md
saphidandClaude Opus 5.5 5bf1268c82 Ship KDE Connect inside Frame Control instead of downloading it on the Frame
The keyboard and trackpad no longer fetch KDE Connect from Valve's package
repository on the Frame. The desktop apps and the iPhone app's Frame bundle
carry Valve's arm64 build of kdeconnect 24.02.2-1 and the five libraries it
links (kcontacts, kpeople, modemmanager-qt, pulseaudio-qt, libfakekey),
pinned by SHA-256 in frame/kdeconnect/packages.json and downloaded at build
time from the kdeconnect-frame-24.02.2-1 release, which also holds Valve's
complete source package for each.

On first use the computer copies them over its SSH connection (the iPhone
bundle already has them on the Frame); the agent checks each SHA-256,
unpacks them and stamps which build it is, so later starts copy nothing.
No internet on the Frame, 3.6 MB instead of 8 MB, 18 MB unpacked instead of
82 MB (ModemManager and friends were packaging-only dependencies).

GPL/LGPL compliance: frame/kdeconnect/NOTICE.md names each exact version,
licence and source; per-project licence texts in frame/kdeconnect/LICENSES;
THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md; an About and licences dialog in the app.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 21:07:20 +10:00

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Third-party software in Frame Control

Frame Control's own code is under the MIT licence. The apps also ship other people's software, unchanged, each under its own licence:

What Where Licence Details
KDE Connect 24.02.2 and five libraries, as Valve builds them for the Frame Desktop apps and the iPhone app; copied to the Frame for the keyboard and trackpad GPL and LGPL (per package) frame/kdeconnect/NOTICE.md, licence texts in frame/kdeconnect/LICENSES, complete source in the kdeconnect-frame-24.02.2-1 release
Python 3.12 (python-build-standalone) Desktop apps PSF License and others Included with it, in the app's python folder
adb (Android SDK Platform-Tools) Desktop apps (not Linux arm64) Apache-2.0 and others NOTICE.txt in the app's tools folder
Mozilla's CA certificate list, as published by curl Desktop apps MPL-2.0 https://curl.se/docs/caextract.html
Electron Desktop apps MIT (Chromium: BSD-3-Clause and others) LICENSE and LICENSES.chromium.html in the app

Frame Control starts KDE Connect and talks to it over its network protocol; it doesn't link to it or include its code.