Documentation: Add section on how the project responds to legal threats

Threatening or initiating legal action against the maintainers of our
infrastructure or projects (all projects hosted on our infrastructure)
is a huge stressor to those maintainers.

To underline that severity, such threats or action will lead to an
immediate ban from our infrastructure as agreed on the leadership
meeting of 2023-05-31.

There may be legitimate legal action to take in certain cases, and
it's always possible to unban people, but given the severity provide
warning that we'll opt for a "ban first, sort out later" approach.

Change-Id: Ifa865487dc81ed3797fe60e5cef737c57dd85fea
Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi <patrick@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/75554
Reviewed-by: Elyes Haouas <ehaouas@noos.fr>
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Reinauer <stefan.reinauer@coreboot.org>
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@ -95,6 +95,17 @@ If you feel you have been falsely or unfairly accused of violating this
Code of Conduct, you should notify the arbitration team with a concise Code of Conduct, you should notify the arbitration team with a concise
description of your grievance. description of your grievance.
## Legal action
Threatening or starting legal action against the project, sibling
projects hosted on coreboot.org infrastructure, project or infrastructure
maintainers leads to an immediate ban from coreboot.org and related
systems.
The ban can be reconsidered, but it's the default action because the
people who pour lots of time and money into the projects aren't interested
in seeing their resources used against them.
## Scope ## Scope
We expect all community participants (contributors, paid or otherwise; We expect all community participants (contributors, paid or otherwise;