Bug 664590

Summary:	sys-firmware/intel-microcode-20180807_p20180808-r2 and r3 have wrong licence intel-ucode-20180807
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Stephan Karacson <stkabugs>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	major	CC:	jstein, licenses
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Stephan Karacson 2018-08-25 15:53:08 UTC

sys-firmware/intel-microcode-20180807_p20180808-r2 and -r3 forces the user to accept the licence file /usr/portage/licenses/intel-ucode-20180807 that was included in microcode-20180807.tgz from intel which is very large and restrictive.

According to an article from heise.de this could have been an mistake (with some NDA thing).
https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Aerger-ueber-Intels-Lizenzbedingungen-fuer-Sicherheits-Updates-4144515.html
(German)

They also point out that intel has released a new licence and a new set: microcode-20180807a.tgz which is much shorter and easier to handle.
https://01.org/mcu-path-license-2018
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/28087/Linux-Processor-Microcode-Data-File

Just wanted to get you knowing.

Comment 1 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2018-08-26 06:30:03 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 664134 ***