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Re:GNU Boot sent a cease and desist to Libreboot by slim on Sunday July 30, 2023 @01:41AM (#36928201)
He framed it in a convoluted way. I had to reread multiple times but it seems the story is this : He started a new project named osboot and changed his policy regarding free software (maybe changed license too ?), then he decided to port all the code of libreboot to osboot and stop maintaining libreboot. So one early contributor of libreboot decided to maintain it. The problem is the guy decided to rename osboot into libreboot. Hence the conflict.
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Re:GNU Boot sent a cease and desist to Libreboot by LukeShu on Sunday July 30, 2023 @02:18AM (#36928397)
Leah created Libreboot in 2014.

Leah stepped away from Libreboot in 2016, after some drama between her and the FSF. Two Libreboot community members, Andrew and Sebastian, became the Libreboot maintainers.

In 2021, after Andrew and Sebastian managed to go 5 years without doing a release, Leah forcefully took the project back over in order to get releases going again.

Leah also started a "sister project" to Libreboot, Osboot, which had a different (non-FSF-friendly) firmware/microcode policy in order to support more hardware. It is my understanding that on all hardware that can be supported without binary blobs that Osboot still did not include any and was equivalent to Libreboot.

In November 2022, Leah merged Osboot into Libreboot, adopting Osboot's firmware/microcode policy for Libreboot.

In response to this policy change, two other community members, Denis and Adrien, forked libreboot.org as libreboot.at, and claim to be the "genuine" Libreboot. Neither Denis nor Adiren were Libreboot contributors before that. libreboot.at is a snapshot of pre-osboot-merge Libreboot; there are not any new releases there.

In June 2023, Denis and Adrien decided to start work toward doing new releases under the name "GNU Boot". They have not yet done a release of GNU Boot.

In July 2023, Leah posted an "Unofficial GNU Boot 20230717 release" to libreboot.org. Adrien sent Leah the "C&D" about using the "GNU Boot" name. Leah removed the release from libreboot.org, and instead put up https://notgnuboot.vimuser.org/ .

Adrien sending that message is ironic, given that Adrien and Dennis are trying to steal the Libreboot name from Leah.

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Re:GNU Boot sent a cease and desist to Libreboot by slim on Sunday July 30, 2023 @02:38AM (#36928498)
She said Denis is an early contributor
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Re:GNU Boot sent a cease and desist to Libreboot by LukeShu on Sunday July 30, 2023 @02:56AM (#36928581)
My apologies. Denis contributed 2 documentation patches in 2019. That said, he is a Coreboot contributor, so it's not like he's a total outsider.
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Re:GNU Boot sent a cease and desist to Libreboot by zdimension on Sunday July 30, 2023 @02:50AM (#36928554)
Most importantly, she disagreed with the FSF's policy of never using any binary blob anywhere for any reason, because that was incompatible with the goal of supporting as much hardware as possible. Hence, the GNU Boot fork. But then, those guys trying to reappropriate the Libreboot name...
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Re:GNU Boot sent a cease and desist to Libreboot by martin8412 on Sunday July 30, 2023 @06:36AM (#36929777)
Well, the FSF policy is completely stupid. They allow binary blobs if loaded from an EEPROM that can't be updated by the user. If the user can update them, they're not allowed.
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