Public bug reported:
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.
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.
** Affects: intel-microcode (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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intel-microcode & amd64-microcode are in main component but are not
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