On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 11:47 PM, Kyösti Mälkki kyosti.malkki@gmail.com wrote:
Microcode update files downloaded from Intel or AMD sites may contain licensing terms not compatible with GPLv2. Those original license texts have not been enclosed in the same commit with microcode update when they were submitted to coreboot.git repository and for some cases they may not have allowed redistribution in any form.
Given the amount of time we spent in discussions with AMD ca. 2006/7, about making the microcode license work, this is one argument I'm not going to believe. The vendors have been good about making sure they don't break GPLv2.
With this quote, I do not understand why you are against moving microcodes to blobs.git. I also do not understand why you approved this patch to be submitted to coreboot.git without the (required) microcode update files.
because we have something that works today, that we have worked with the vendors to make sure has working licensing. I can not see how moving the microcode to a separate repo improves the situation.
ron