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Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
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The page name aren't directly meaningful. In contrib.md for instance I would expect to find how to contribute. In git.md instead I would expect to find how to download GNU Boot but not how to contribute. Since the authors page isn't meaningful anymore for GNU Boot as it has different priorities than Libreboot at the time where it was fully free, and also because GNU Boot also wants to put forward smaller contributions, especially contributions that aren't recorded in git. As the GNU Boot project doesn't have the same community or dynamics than the Libreboot project had, the gaps it has are different. So we also try to put forward contributions that fills these gaps. However since this page is very important historically, so we need to keep it not to forget about it. So to fix that we added GNU Boot's point of view and moved it in the history section. Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org> neox: updated link in pages/template.include Acked-by: Adrien Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
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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.") |