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title: GNU Boot source code history
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Introduction
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============
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The GNU Boot project decided that it was a good thing to list all the
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contributors that modified a file in the copyright headers. There are
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many good reasons for that:
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- It simplify things (we don't need to decide what contribution is big
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enough to include its author in the copyright headers).
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- It also acknowledge people that did smaller but yet very valuable
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contributions.
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- If for some reasons who we decide to include or not in the header
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has some legal effects, by including more people there we
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practically speaking make the copyleft stronger as the copyright
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ownership is more distributed, and so a single individual cannot
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easily re-license the whole project under non-copyleft licenses.
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However in the [main GNU Boot
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repository](https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/gnuboot.git) there are
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many files whose copyright headers are incomplete as they miss some of
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the contributors.
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Since some of the files have a very long history that spans through
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multiple projects and repositories, we found the need to document the
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complex history of the GNU Boot source code.
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In addition it would also be a good thing to go beyond just
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documenting the git and tarball releases history. For instance we lack
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the history of various projects somewhat related to Libreboot like
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retroboot, and we don't have any documentation on their precise
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relationship with the Libreboot project either.
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Researching all that ourselves is time consuming. So until now we
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tried to save what was useful for understanding the GNU Boot history
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without doing too much research (on the material) ourselves. Here are
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the pages we kept (and that we modified a bit to add more context):
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* [authors.md](authors.md)
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Git history
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===========
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Here's a summary of the git history that is scattered across
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different repositories and projects:
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And are the corresponding files to the image above:
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* [Image file](../../history/git-history.jpg)
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* [Source file](../../history/git-history.dot)
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Before Libreboot used git
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=========================
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Before using git, Libreboot was released as tarballs.
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The commit cee90ae0fce6d6aee8d78969b60c952c8890abd6 in the
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[obsolete-repository-preserved-for-historical-purposes](https://notabug.org/libreboot/obsolete-repository-preserved-for-historical-purposes)
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repository has more details on the first releases.
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So far we know about these tarball releases before git:
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+------------------------------+----------+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
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| Release | date | URL |
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+------------------------------+----------+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
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| 1st release | 20131212 | https://rsync.libreboot.org/oldstable/20131212/X60_source.tar.gz |
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+------------------------------+----------+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
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| 2nd release | 20131213 | https://rsync.libreboot.org/oldstable/20131213/X60_source.tar.gz |
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+------------------------------+----------+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
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| 3rd release | 20131214 | https://rsync.libreboot.org/oldstable/20131214/X60_source.tar.gz |
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+------------------------------+----------+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
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| 4th release | 20140221 | https://rsync.libreboot.org/oldstable/20140221/X60_source.tar.gz |
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+------------------------------+----------+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
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| 5th release, first revision | lost | lost |
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+------------------------------+----------+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
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| 5th release, second revision | 20140622 | https://rsync.libreboot.org/oldstable/20140622/libreboot_src.tar.gz |
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+------------------------------+----------+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
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| 6th release, first beta | 20140711 | https://rsync.libreboot.org/oldstable/20140711/libreboot_src.tar.gz |
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+------------------------------+----------+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
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The "6th release, first beta" is also available in git, but we don't
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know yet if the git commit and the tarball are equivalent, so we
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included it as well.
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Before the first Libreboot release
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==================================
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The first Libreboot release (20131212) also contains several git
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repositories that contains build scripts:
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* https://gitorious.org/gnutoo-for-coreboot/coreboot.git (forked
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Coreboot with deblobbing and extra patches).
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* https://gitorious.org/gnutoo-for-coreboot/build-makefiles.git (build
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scripts and Makefile(s)).
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So some of the files present in GNU boot may or may not come from there.
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And the gnutoo-for-coreboot repositories were made from scratch by GNUtoo.
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Incomplete history
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==================
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The history of the projects presented in this page is incomplete. So
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far we only have a partial code history. Contributions are
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welcome. See the [contribute.md](../../contribute.md) page about various ways to
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contribute to GNU Boot or to contact the project to update the
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information in this page.
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Verified copyright headers
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==========================
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So far the copyright headers were verified on the following files:
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* build (details in commit 1ccd450fec42ce426a00d075ad9b78a0b8c233ba
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"build: Update copyright header.").
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* website/.gitignore (details in the commit
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722a8256ab031a533418cbcf27bedd0cd88b7660 ("website: .gitignore: add
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copyright header.")
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* website/serve.sh (details in the commit
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aca12bde3f7af5b17969d57f7da1a8d700e0a36f ("website: serve.sh: update
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copyright headers.")
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* resources/dependencies/trisquel (details in the commit
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805127f0301294e41a4409a2c9a7d121214a594e ("dependencies: Trisquel
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10: Add copyright header.")).
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* resources/grub/config/grub.cfg (details in commit
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2695c97561405741200dc25f520a5ff649b7421f "grub.cfg: Add copyright
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header.")
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* resources/packages/src/release (details in commit
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65c0e57a550e8e6a8d80543585eeed66ad06cb64 "resources: packages: src:
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release: Update copyright header.")
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Also note that some files are there to stay (like the grub.cfg file
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above) but since we took the decision to migrate packages to Guix,
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another way to help improve the copyright headers situation is to
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migrate packages to Guix and to make sure that the Guix packages have
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proper copyright headers.
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Since we can add the path of verified files above, it is also possible
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to add files that never had any issues.
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Some omissions can still manage to skip through code review after the
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verification but at least we have the proper git history that enables
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us to more easily reconstruct it.
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Files with an incomplete copyright header
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=========================================
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The following files have incomplete copyright headers:
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* website/pages/global.css (details in the commit
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612a3b51426eeddfbd8ada0de275eebf7e0ffe7f ("website: pages:
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global.css: Add copyright header.") |