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Phoronix: "100% Free" GNU Boot Discovers Again They Have Been Shipping Non-Free Code (www.phoronix.com)

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GNU Boot is a "100% free software project aimed at replacing the non-free boot software" and is a downstream of Coreboot, GRUB, and SeaBIOS. While priding itself on being "100% free", last December they had to drop some motherboard support and CPU code after discovering they were shipping some files that are non-free by their free software standards. Today they announced another mistake in having inadvertently been shipping additional non-free code.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Wait, you can compile coreboot without google's vboot support. If it's the only problem, why drop motherboards?