[Bug 1773888] Re: intel-microcode & amd64-microcode are in main component but are not free software

[Ian Kelling]

** 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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Title:
  intel-microcode & amd64-microcode are in main component but are not
  free software

Status in intel-microcode package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  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."

  So it's nonfree software.

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