Intel Clears Up Microcode Licensing Controversy - Simpler License, Allows Benchmarking

[tildearrow]

Ban on benchmarking? I guess they did this because they know Meltdown and Spectre and <insert vulnerability here> have been hurting them...

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel Clears Up Microcode Licensing Controversy - Simpler License, Allows Benchmarking

Over the past day online there has been lots of controversy following some high-profile sites reporting about Intel's "un-friendly microcode license update" and its "ban on benchmarking", among other catch phrases. It's now been officially cleared up by Intel with a simpler license that doesn't forbid benchmarking, allows distribution vendors to re-distributed these binary files to their users, and doesn't have any other nastiness integrated into the legal text...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...-License-Fixed