Libreboot aims to create a system environment that completely dispenses with proprietary software
A few days ago the news broke that Adrien Bourmault, founder from the GNU Boot project, sent a request to the developer of Libreboot, Leah Rowe, for you dwill stop using the GNU Boot name to distribute his Libreboot build, which he decided to release under that name.
The published build by Leah, from Libreboot called GNU Boot and labeled "unofficial", I generate some annoyance for Adrien Bourmault, since in the first instance this may cause some co-function between users, In addition, the claim states that Leah is not a GNU Boot maintainer and does not have the right to publish versions on behalf of this project.
Up to this point, everything seems fine, but a detail that has caught the attention of many in the community and that they somewhat defend the developer of Libreboot, is that the original fork of GNU Boot was forked from the deprecated Libreboot codebase, in late 2022, which was itself based on the CoreBoot codebase ported to mid 2021.
And the detail is that after the complaint was received, Leah agreed to the demand. and changed your build name to "nonGenuine Boot" and at the same time, He mentioned that the authors of GNU Boot originally borrowed the name Libreboot in their work. The fork was created on March 19, but only renamed to GNU Boot on June 11.
Meanwhile Adrien Bourmault, I mentioned that if you want to participate in the development, you should submit patches for review and not create his own version, something that no longer fits due to the fact that his project is based on another...
It should be noted that Leah's build was based on a new Libreboot codebase, in sync with the early 2023 state of CoreBoot, and included fixes for many bugs in the build system that were not fixed in the GNU Boot project. originally created.
The official GNU Boot project was created in June 2023, a month before Leah's build, and had not yet had time to form its own release. The GNU Boot project planned to develop a fork of Libreboot that would use stricter requirements for including binary components, and Leah's proposed build solved this problem.
Leah explained that when creating her unofficial build, she just wanted to help out on the new project; the GNU Boot creators were supposed to be able to use the published code in their project. Despite using the same name, an "unofficial" tag was added to the set.
In 2021, Andrew Robbins, one of the Libreboot developers, had a serious conflict with Leah Rowe. Due to disagreement over transitioning to a new build system, Leah removed Andrew, Sebastian Grzywna, and Paul Kocialkowski from the maintainer list and blocked access to the Libreboot infrastructure.
The suspension was made unilaterally without a vote among the developers, which was prescribed by the project management rules in force at the time. Furthermore, it removed all mention of them as contributors to the development of Libreboot.
After making claims, Leah posted a response, which has since been removed from the site. In response, Leah wished good luck with the fork, explaining that the code created by Andrew and Sebastian was removed from the Git repository and moved to the archive, and the reason for the break was the delay in developing a new build system. build that the displaced maintainers have been developing since 2016, but didn't finish it. Rather than wait for the new build system to be ready, Leah went back to using the old build system and updated it.
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