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by lodovic 1060 days ago
How can they object to "unofficial" releases of Free (tm) software when anyone can pull the code and build it.
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dcow 1060 days ago
Because trademarks still exist. But yeah, IDK why a true free (as in culture) software advocate would care.
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filmor 1060 days 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.
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slim 1060 days ago
it's not even the same code
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whstl 1060 days 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/2023-0... 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

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