[teddyh]

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...>

1. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36927233>

[lodovic]

How can they object to "unofficial" releases of Free (tm) software when anyone can pull the code and build it.

[dcow]

Because trademarks still exist. But yeah, IDK why a true free (as in culture) software advocate would care.

[filmor]

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]

it's not even the same code

[whstl]

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/2023-0... and 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