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

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @08:45AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @08:45AM (#725705)

    - observed"

    Might that be because observation is prohibited? Joking aside they're just lying and apparently quite a lot.

    I think such a crazy gag says much more negative things about intel than any report of performance degradation. As long as my old computers keep working I will not buy new from these assholes. Perens is absolutely right here.