Hi, I cannot talk for the maintainer either, but AFAIU the new license doesn't make it possible for Debian to distribute the binaries. Gentoo has concluded that also, and that the files cannot be mirrored.
El 19/08/18 a las 09:36, Markus Schade escribió: … > could you please clarify what concerns Debian has with the license? AFAICS, there are different points that Debian would be concerned about. Starting with: DO NOT DOWNLOAD, INSTALL, ACCESS, COPY, OR USE ANY PORTION OF THE SOFTWARE UNTIL YOU HAVE READ AND ACCEPTED THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT. (I didn't have to read the agreement to download, install…) And then: 2. LIMITED LICENSE. Conditioned on Your compliance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Intel grants to You … to (iii) distribute an object code representation of the Software, provided by Intel, through multiple levels of distribution, solely as embedded in or for execution on an Intel-based product and subject to these license terms, and if to an end user, pursuant to a license agreement with terms and conditions at least as restrictive as those contained in the Intel End User Software License Agreement in Appendix A hereto. Distribution to derivatives is problematic: 3. LICENSE RESTRICTIONS. … Unless expressly permitted under the Agreement, You will not, and will not allow any third party to (i) use, copy, distribute, sell or offer to sell the Software or associated documentation; … (iii) use or make the Software available for the use or benefit of third parties; And then, there are some restrictions, for which I am not sure we (Debian) would be concerned, such as 13. export, directly or indirectly", to some countries, or 14. "You will not provide the Software to the U.S. Government." Maybe it would be needed to change the package to provide a download helper from the intel servers? The user should have to be asked to accept or not the license and its appendix A. Cheers, -- S
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