On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 12:22 PM, Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So this made HN: > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17801474 > > I've downloaded both 20180703 and 20180807 firmware from Intel and the > two licenses are different, in particular with the usage of the term > 'property'. > > When I downloaded the 20180807 version, there was no prompt for > license agreement, but there is a license file in the tgz. Whereas > when downloading the 20180703 version, there is a license agreement > prompt, but no license file in the tgz. > > Anyway, should this be in koji until this is resolved? The thread > above suggests Intel is aware of the problem and will fix it, but... > yeah. > > cc'ing legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx in the blind (I'm not subscribed) > > -- > Chris Murphy OK so this might be a nevermind because of this: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=906158#49 But nevertheless on cursory reading I do not like a license agreement that starts out with "do not download this until you agree to it" and yet I have to download the tgz in order to read the license. The license isn't in the RPM. I also don't like this "will not allow any third party" b.s. as if Fedora has any responsibility or power to prevent me (or any Fedora user) to do trivial things like benchmarking the performance effects of these microcode updates. And so on... -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/CNNJ6UV7D2WNKKSBDL7QIX5IPI24FGAJ/
