On Wed, 04 Sep 2013, David Guntner wrote: > used because of the scale of how many CPUs are affected. It's > "non-free" in the sense that they hold patents, etc., on the code that > restrict how you can use it and so on.
It is non-free because of the license attached to the microcode distribution, not because of patents. http://ftp-master.metadata.debian.org/changelogs/non-free/i/intel-microcode/unstable_copyright Since that license is not compatible with the DFSG, the package goes in non-free and not in Debian main. http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130904231953.ga12...@khazad-dum.debian.net
