diff --git a/.oelint.cfg b/.oelint.cfg
index d98ccae..19d885d 100644
--- a/.oelint.cfg
+++ b/.oelint.cfg
@@ -1,12 +1,19 @@
 # oelint-adv defaults for this layer. Auto-loaded when oelint-adv runs with this
 # directory as the working directory (see contrib/oelint/run-oelint.sh).
 #
-# The only layer-wide suppression is oelint.var.bbclassextend: every recipe in
-# this layer is target-only, so the "add BBCLASSEXTEND" suggestion never applies
-# and would otherwise need a redundant inline comment on every single recipe.
+# Layer-wide suppressions:
+#   * oelint.var.bbclassextend: every recipe in this layer is target-only, so the
+#     "add BBCLASSEXTEND" suggestion never applies and would otherwise need a
+#     redundant inline comment on every single recipe.
+#   * oelint.var.licenseremotefile: recipes whose only sources are files from
+#     this layer have no upstream license file to check, so they point
+#     LIC_FILES_CHKSUM at ${COMMON_LICENSE_DIR}, as OE-Core does for its own
+#     such recipes. Recipes that fetch a source must still checksum its license.
 # All other exceptions stay inline as '# nooelint: <rule.id>' comments next to
 # the finding, so new recipes are always fully linted and each exception is
 # documented in place.
 [oelint]
 release = blacksail
-suppress = oelint.var.bbclassextend
+suppress =
+    oelint.var.bbclassextend
+    oelint.var.licenseremotefile
diff --git a/contrib/oelint/run-oelint.sh b/contrib/oelint/run-oelint.sh
index facd2a9..2d66f37 100755
--- a/contrib/oelint/run-oelint.sh
+++ b/contrib/oelint/run-oelint.sh
@@ -4,16 +4,17 @@
 # All linter configuration is declarative and lives at the layer root, so this
 # script only has to enumerate the files (oelint-adv does not recurse into
 # directories):
-#   * .oelint.cfg           - sets '--release' and the single layer-wide
-#                             suppression (oelint.var.bbclassextend); auto-loaded
-#                             from the working directory
+#   * .oelint.cfg           - sets '--release' and the layer-wide suppressions
+#                             (oelint.var.bbclassextend,
+#                             oelint.var.licenseremotefile); auto-loaded from the
+#                             working directory
 #   * oelint.constants.json - the layer constant-DB additions, auto-loaded by
 #                             oelint-adv from the layer root (no --constantmods)
 #
-# Aside from oelint.var.bbclassextend (which never applies to a target-only
-# layer), exceptions stay inline as '# nooelint: <rule.id>' comments next to the
-# finding, so new recipes are always fully linted and each exception is
-# documented in place (and flagged by oelint.file.inlinesuppress_na once stale).
+# Aside from the layer-wide suppressions in .oelint.cfg, exceptions stay inline
+# as '# nooelint: <rule.id>' comments next to the finding, so new recipes are
+# always fully linted and each exception is documented in place (and flagged by
+# oelint.file.inlinesuppress_na once stale).
 set -eu
 
 # Neutralise CDPATH so 'cd' below can't print or jump to an unexpected dir.