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Date:      Tue, 20 Mar 2018 16:55:57 +0100
From:      Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Eugene Grosbein <eugen@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r464889 - in head/sysutils/cpupdate: . files
Message-ID:  <20180320155557.5leyphzghg7mju4c@ogg.in.absolight.net>
In-Reply-To: <5AB12297.2090101@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 10:02:47PM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> On 20.03.2018 15:47, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
>=20
> > On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 10:27:19AM +0000, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> >> Author: eugen
> >> Date: Sun Mar 18 10:27:19 2018
> >> New Revision: 464889
> >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/464889
> >>
> >> Log:
> >>   sysutils/cpupdate: - correct ONLY_FOR_ARCHS_REASON message;
> >>  =20
> >>   - be more specific in the COMMENT and pkg-descr: mention x86-centric=
ity;
> >>  =20
> >>   - in addition to CPM option, add INTEL convinience option to ease
> >=20
> > I am not sure I understand why those are non default options (and why
> > they are options at all, in fact) as they both seem to have important
> > content that people will need.
> =20
> All installed files must be added to pkg-plist and therefore included int=
o the package.
> However, platomav/CPUMicrocodes is really distinct project and its growth=
 is not syncronized with cpupdate.

Then maybe this one should be in its own port?

> More serious problem may steam from copyright issues: Intel's license all=
ows
> end users to utilize published CPU microcodes but I do not know if FreeBS=
D project
> has special permission to package and redistribute Intel's microcode file=
s.
>=20
> Intel's general licence does not permit redistribution and
> I do not want to limit redistribution of cpupdate package itself
> due to copyrighted blobs added to the package.

I do not know about licensing issues.  My point is that providing a
package without the microcodes does not seem to make a lot of sense to
me.

--=20
Mathieu Arnold

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