The data from the project is released to the public domain (CC0). The research article is also free to access.

See https://github.com/marbl/CHM13 and https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abj6987.

2013 Supreme court case Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc says yes. Although I would guess the right to read the results of the study are not necessarily free.

I think most people ship with a copy from birth.

Yeah, but it's in compiled form. Average person does not possess tools or skills to read the code and see what it does or modify it's behavior.

We need to stop using proprietary genomes. Free genomes, free society.

I'm pretty sure there a bunch of very popular, high-traffic sites with tons of content that demonstrates the build process.

This guy's interested in reading the make file. Those sites just show people running make.

There are sites to cater to those who prefer reading about the build process, too. Uh, so I hear.

Can't wait for v2 to ship. Maybe it will have drivers for the latent psychic hardware.

I would settle for a plugin api and a descent man file