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Intel 'Gags' Linux Distros From Revealing Performance Hit From Spectre Patches

posted by mrpg on Thursday August 23 2018, @10:15PM   Printer-friendly
from the ffs dept.

chromas (from IRC) writes:

ZDNet:

Open-source champion Bruce Perens has called out Intel for adding a new restriction to its software license agreement along with its latest CPU security patches to prevent developers from publishing software benchmark results.

The new clause appears to be a move by Intel to legally gag developers from revealing performance degradation caused by its mitigations for Spectre and Foreshadow or 'L1 Terminal Fault' (L1FT) flaw speculative attacks.

"You will not, and will not allow any third party to ... publish or provide any software benchmark or comparison test results," Intel's new agreement states .

[...] Another section of the license blocking redistribution appears to have caused maintainers of Debian to withhold Intel's patch too , as reported by The Register.

[...] Updated 12:15pm ET, August 23 2018: An Intel spokesperson responded: "We are updating the license now to address this and will have a new version available soon. As an active member of the open-source community, we continue to welcome all feedback."

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @10:28PM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @10:28PM (#725438)

    Typo in that last word. You are missing either "c" or "e".

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @10:45PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @10:45PM (#725449)

    "Their CEO is quite clickable"?

    • (Score: 2) by requerdanos on Thursday August 23 2018, @11:03PM

      by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Thursday August 23 2018, @11:03PM (#725458) Journal

      clickable

      clickable would remove the ambiguity, yes.

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @11:05PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @11:05PM (#725459)

      Puts a whole new spin to their backdoors.

    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by RS3 on Friday August 24 2018, @12:22AM

      by RS3 (6367) on Friday August 24 2018, @12:22AM (#725488)

      "Their CEO is quite clickable"?

      You put the "c" in the wrong place. He meant 'lickable'.

    • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Friday August 24 2018, @07:23AM (1 child)

      by maxwell demon (1608) on Friday August 24 2018, @07:23AM (#725681) Journal

      That would be two additional "c"s.

      --
      The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 26 2018, @04:27AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 26 2018, @04:27AM (#726446)

        You have violated the license by publishing a before and after "count of c" benchmark. Prepare for litigation.