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GNU Boot seems to have sent it not for anything in Libreboot itself, but to adress a web page with self-proclaimed “unofficial” GNU Boot releases. They wanted

by teddyh 3y ago

GNU Boot seems to have sent it not for anything in Libreboot itself, but to adress a web page with self-proclaimed “unofficial” GNU Boot releases. They wanted it to stop proclaiming to be “unofficial GNU Boot” releases. Understandable, if a bit antagonistic. EDIT: Courtesy of user jbit¹, this is the aforementioned web page: <https://web.archive.org/web/20230719185342/https://libreboot.org/news/gnuboot.html https://web.archive.org/web/20230719185342/https://libreboot...> 1. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36927233 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36927233>

lodovic 3y ago
How can they object to "unofficial" releases of Free (tm) software when anyone can pull the code and build it.
- dcow 3y ago
  Because trademarks still exist. But yeah, IDK why a true free (as in culture) software advocate would care.
  - filmor 3y ago
    Because they'll get the bug reports. It's very annoying having a bunch of "unofficial" releases floating around for a project one maintains.
- slim 3y ago
  it's not even the same code
  - whstl 3y ago
    Well, it is GNU Boot code but rebased from newer versions of Libreboot. GNU Boot seems to be Libreboot with very minor differences (mainly documentation) + removal of binary blobs. Check https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/libreboot-devel/2023-03/threads.html https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/libreboot-devel/2023-0... and https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/libreboot-devel/2023-04/threads.html https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/libreboot-devel/2023-0... to see the patches. There is also a Savannah repository but history does seem to have been deleted: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnuboot.git https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnuboot.git