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task #13499: Submission of Libreboot

Submitter:  -Deleted Account- <lr>
Submitted:  Sat 21 Feb 2015 02:52:09 PM UTC
   
 
Should Start On:  Sat 21 Feb 2015 12:00:00 AM UTC Should be Finished on:  Tue 03 Mar 2015 12:00:00 AM UTC
Category:  Project Approval Priority:  * 5 - Normal
Status:  Done Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  agn Open/Closed:  Closed
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Mon 23 Feb 2015 12:15:06 AM UTC, comment #5: 

Hello Francis,

The project has been created.
You should receive an email with further instructions soon.

Regards,
 - Assaf

Assaf Gordon <agn>
Site Administrator
Sat 21 Feb 2015 11:07:29 PM UTC, comment #4: 

Assaf - since the FSF has certified these sources, we might as well accept it -- not our place to be pickier than they are.  Similar situation to GNU packages ...

Karl Berry <karl>
Site Administrator
Sat 21 Feb 2015 08:03:16 PM UTC, comment #3: 

The dependencies for trisquel can be fonud in the script
"deps-trisquel". If you can't find that in the latest git, it's
because it's moved to resources/scripts/dependencies/trisquel7dependencies

-Deleted Account- <lr>
Sat 21 Feb 2015 08:02:39 PM UTC, comment #2: 



hi Assaf,

Joshua Gay (jgay@fsf.org or licensing@fsf.org) of FSF certified the
libreboot sources, he can pretty much go through it all (I went
through these questions with him when getting RYF for the X200). I had
to certify libreboot with him through the same process that nongnu.org
and gnu.org use.

Coreboot uses GPLv2 overall (there are some BSD 3-clause parts and
some other copyleft or non-copyleft free software licenses), GRUB uses
GPLv3+, MemTest86+ is GPLv2, bucts is GPLv2, flashrom is GPLv2+.
^ These are including in libreboot_src/libreboot_bin/libreboot_util.
^ these are not included in libreboot git, but are downloaded using
scripts executed by a main script called "download", in the root of
the tree.

Coreboot does come with some proprietary blobs in a few areas (like
the Linux kernel does), but libreboot contains deblob scripts that get
rid of the blobs (this is actually the whole point of the project).

Aside from these dependencies, there are scripts are utilities
including in the libreboot git tree which are all GPLv3 for the most
part (there might be a few GPLv2 parts).
The documentation is CC BY-SA 4.0+.

The other dependencies for building libreboot from source can be
installed exclusively through apt-get in Trisquel GNU/Linux, and that
is already certified by the FSF to be a fully free distribution of
GNU/Linux.

(The above is why I specified libreboot as having "mixed" licensing,
because there's not really a specific license)

> It would also help if you could provide a archive containing only
> the actual code/files for the project itself, without any
> unmodified projects.
>


What does this mean?

You can find downloads at http://libreboot.org/download/ - these
contain tar archives, and also links to the git repositories.

Regards,
Francis Rowe.

-Deleted Account- <lr>
Sat 21 Feb 2015 07:42:40 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Hello Francis,

Thank you for submitting a new project to host on GNU Savannah.
As the code-base is very large, it will take a bit of time to go over it, in order to ensure it adheres to the hosting requirements
(http://savannah.gnu.org/register/requirements.php
http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/HowToGetYourProjectApprovedQuickly/).

To help speed things up, may I ask you to please specify a complete list of dependencies and their licenses,
and state the license of the "libreboot" project itself?

It would also help if you could provide a archive containing only the actual code/files for the project itself, without any unmodified projects.

Regards,
 - Assaf

Assaf Gordon <agn>
Site Administrator
Sat 21 Feb 2015 02:52:09 PM UTC, original submission:  

A new project has been registered at Savannah
This project account will remain inactive until a site admin approves or discards the registration.


Registration Administration


While this item will be useful to track the registration process, approving or discarding the registration must be done using the specific Group Administration page, accessible only to site administrators, effectively logged as site administrators (superuser):



Registration Details


  • Name: Libreboot
  • System Name:  libreboot
  • Type: non-GNU software and documentation
  • License: Other (Mixed licensing.)





Description:

Libreboot is a coreboot distribution (distro) with proprietary software removed, intended to be a free (libre) 'BIOS' replacement for your computer. The project is aimed at users, attempting to make coreboot as easy to use as possible.


Other Software Required:

http://coreboot.org/ (libreboot removes the blobs)
https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
http://flashrom.org/Flashrom
http://git.stuge.se/?p=bucts.git
http://www.memtest.org/
+ various dependencies from Trisquel/Parabola repositories


Other Comments:

Libreboot is a free firmware distribution based on coreboot (blobs removed), the first project to be certified as part of the FSF RYF programme.


Tarball URL:

http://libreboot.org/git/libreboot_src.tar.xz


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