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Signed-off-by: Adrien Bourmault <neox@a-lec.org> Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org> Acked-by: Adrien Bourmault <neox@a-lec.org> Acked-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
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### What is this? ####
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### What is this? ####
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Libreboot is a free software project aimed at replacing the proprietary
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Libreboot is a free software project aimed at replacing the proprietary
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BIOS firmware with an entirely free version.
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boot firmware that comes with computers with free boot software.
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### How this project came to exist ####
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### How this project came to exist ####
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We believe all computer users deserve to control all the software they
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We believe computer users deserve to control all the software they
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run. This belief is the foundation of a social movement called the
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run. This belief is the key principle of the Free Software Movement,
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*free software movement*, which consists of a large community of
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and was the motive for developing the GNU operating system and
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software users and developers. We believe computer user freedom is a
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starting the Free Software Foundation. We believe computer user
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vitally important goal.
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freedom is a crucial human rights.
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In order to achieve our goal, it is important that when we call a
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In order to achieve our goal, it is crucial that we call a program
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program free or libre, it is actually free in its entirety. That may
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"free" or "libre" only when it is indeed free in its entirety. When
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seem like a lot to ask, but it would undermine our goal if we were
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we talk about specific programs, we must not muddle the facts about
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flexible on our core belief: freedom.
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what is free and what is not. If people start referring to a progran
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as "libre," when parts of it are not in fact libre, that tends to lead
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the community astray.
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There are free software programs that are important to the community
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Unfortunately, such a muddle happened last year with a boot program
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and our cause. Sometimes the development team of one of these programs
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that was free software and was called Libreboot: the development team
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changes direction and creates the unfortunate situation where a free
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added nonfree code to it, but continued to refer to it misleadingly as
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program that is used by many begins to include nonfree software. This
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"Libreboot".
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is what is currently happening with the formerly free BIOS replacement
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Libreboot was first released in 2009. It has been widely recommended
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in the free software community for the last thirteen years. In
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November 2022, "Libreboot" began to include non-libre code. We have
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made repeated efforts to continue collaboration with those developers
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on a Libreboot which is libre, but that was not succeessful.
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Now we've stepped forward to stand up for freedom, ours and that of
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the wider community, by maintaining our own version -- a genuinely libre
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Libreboot.
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Libreboot.
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Libreboot was first released in 2009. It has been widely recommended in the
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free software community for the last thirteen years. In November 2022,
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Libreboot upstream began to include nonfree software. We have made
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multiple attempts to work with upstream to keep Libreboot fully free,
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but unfortunately our efforts were not successful. As such, we've
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taken it upon ourselves to stand up for our principles and the
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freedom of the wider community, releasing our own version of a
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genuinely libre libreboot.
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### Our short term plans and need for help ###
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### Our short term plans and need for help ###
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We are seeking contributors for various jobs, both simple and technical.
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We are seeking contributors for various jobs, both simple and technical.
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The Libreboot name has a long history in the free software
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The Libreboot name has a long history in the free software community.
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community. We will continue to publish the genuinely free boot
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Most occurrences of the uses were intended to refer to boot software
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software by the name Libreboot. You can help our project by informing
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that was libre, and there is no way to edit those occurrences to refer
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people about this genuinely free version. Another way to help this
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to libre boot software by a different name. Therefore, we will
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project and take a stand for fully free software is to change URLs
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continue to publish the genuinely free boot software under the name
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across the web from <libreboot.org> to <libreboot.at>, and to let them
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Libreboot.
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know that no other version of Libreboot is reliably free software.
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You can help our project by informing people about this genuinely free
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version of Libreboot. Another way to help this project and take a
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stand for fully free software is to change URLs across the web from
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<libreboot.org> to <libreboot.at>, and to let people know that no
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other version of Libreboot is reliably free software.
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While there is some documentation in our git repositories, we also
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While there is some documentation in our git repositories, we also
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need help adding explanations on how to contribute, build and test
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need help adding explanations on how to contribute, build and test
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this website.
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this website.
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Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli and Adrien 'neox' Bourmault are the interim
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Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli and Adrien 'neox' Bourmault are the interim
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maintainers of this genuine Libreboot. They will also review patches
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maintainers of this genuine Libreboot. They will also review patches
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sent to the mailing list. Technoethical (an online shop that sells
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sent to the mailing list. Technoethical (an online shop that sells
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hardware compatible with FSF certified distributions) and Libre en
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hardware compatible with FSF certified distributions) and Libre en
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Communs (a French nonprofit that acts and advocates for free software
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Communs (a French nonprofit that acts and advocates for free software
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