On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 9:03 AM, Marc Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > It might be a good idea, but that might be too limiting
I think historically, it has been assumed that everything in blobs is open up for RE and modification. There are plenty of examples of people reverse-engineering stuff in blobs, and also modifying the blob itself [1]. First and foremost, we should protect the project, and with that, our contributors. We can have a process where we might grant exceptions from these (proposed) rules to certain non-ISA blobs. For example, we might exempt microcode on the basis that (we believe) It's impractical to RE, and keeping that avenue open is not of any particular value. > and we would have to remove all blobs and they would be hosted somewhere else We can grandfather in existing blobs, or we can have a process where we keep them for a while (a year?) while we try to work out appropriate licensing terms with the power-that-be of said blob. [1] http://review.coreboot.org/4605 Alex -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
