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Signed-off-by: Adrien Bourmault <neox@a-lec.org>
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
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@ -5,55 +5,61 @@ title: Free your BIOS today!
### What is this? ####
Libreboot is a free software project aimed at replacing the proprietary
BIOS firmware with an entirely free version.
boot firmware that comes with computers with free boot software.
### How this project came to exist ####
We believe all computer users deserve to control all the software they
run. This belief is the foundation of a social movement called the
*free software movement*, which consists of a large community of
software users and developers. We believe computer user freedom is a
vitally important goal.
We believe computer users deserve to control all the software they
run. This belief is the key principle of the Free Software Movement,
and was the motive for developing the GNU operating system and
starting the Free Software Foundation. We believe computer user
freedom is a crucial human rights.
In order to achieve our goal, it is important that when we call a
program free or libre, it is actually free in its entirety. That may
seem like a lot to ask, but it would undermine our goal if we were
flexible on our core belief: freedom.
In order to achieve our goal, it is crucial that we call a program
"free" or "libre" only when it is indeed free in its entirety. When
we talk about specific programs, we must not muddle the facts about
what is free and what is not. If people start referring to a progran
as "libre," when parts of it are not in fact libre, that tends to lead
the community astray.
There are free software programs that are important to the community
and our cause. Sometimes the development team of one of these programs
changes direction and creates the unfortunate situation where a free
program that is used by many begins to include nonfree software. This
is what is currently happening with the formerly free BIOS replacement
Unfortunately, such a muddle happened last year with a boot program
that was free software and was called Libreboot: the development team
added nonfree code to it, but continued to refer to it misleadingly as
"Libreboot".
Libreboot was first released in 2009. It has been widely recommended
in the free software community for the last thirteen years. In
November 2022, "Libreboot" began to include non-libre code. We have
made repeated efforts to continue collaboration with those developers
on a Libreboot which is libre, but that was not succeessful.
Now we've stepped forward to stand up for freedom, ours and that of
the wider community, by maintaining our own version -- a genuinely libre
Libreboot.
Libreboot was first released in 2009. It has been widely recommended in the
free software community for the last thirteen years. In November 2022,
Libreboot upstream began to include nonfree software. We have made
multiple attempts to work with upstream to keep Libreboot fully free,
but unfortunately our efforts were not successful. As such, we've
taken it upon ourselves to stand up for our principles and the
freedom of the wider community, releasing our own version of a
genuinely libre libreboot.
### Our short term plans and need for help ###
We are seeking contributors for various jobs, both simple and technical.
The Libreboot name has a long history in the free software
community. We will continue to publish the genuinely free boot
software by the name Libreboot. You can help our project by informing
people about this genuinely free version. Another way to help this
project and take a stand for fully free software is to change URLs
across the web from <libreboot.org> to <libreboot.at>, and to let them
know that no other version of Libreboot is reliably free software.
The Libreboot name has a long history in the free software community.
Most occurrences of the uses were intended to refer to boot software
that was libre, and there is no way to edit those occurrences to refer
to libre boot software by a different name. Therefore, we will
continue to publish the genuinely free boot software under the name
Libreboot.
You can help our project by informing people about this genuinely free
version of Libreboot. Another way to help this project and take a
stand for fully free software is to change URLs across the web from
<libreboot.org> to <libreboot.at>, and to let people know that no
other version of Libreboot is reliably free software.
While there is some documentation in our git repositories, we also
need help adding explanations on how to contribute, build and test
this website.
Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli and Adrien 'neox' Bourmault are the interim
maintainers of this genuine Libreboot. They will also review patches
maintainers of this genuine Libreboot. They will also review patches
sent to the mailing list. Technoethical (an online shop that sells
hardware compatible with FSF certified distributions) and Libre en
Communs (a French nonprofit that acts and advocates for free software