** Description changed: Quoting https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories "The main component contains applications that are free software, can be freely redistributed and are fully supported by the Ubuntu team." The intel-microcode license includes this nice sentence: "* No reverse engineering, decompilation, or disassembly of this - software is permitted." + software is permitted." So it's nonfree software. - - The microcode packages are now a dependency for linux-image-generic - on x86 so people are getting them automatically. - - I expect your excuse is security, but the security issues have been - public since January, and you put the microcode into main in May and I - haven't seen any reports of security breaches. - - Take it out of main.
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