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   Abhiseck Paira :gnu: :gnuhurd: (redstarfish@social.linux.pizza)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Nov-2022 13:00:50 JST Abhiseck Paira :gnu: :gnuhurd:

   What an abomination! The word "Libreboot/librebooted" means nothing at this point!

   This again shows why allowing even a single non-free software is big slippery slope.

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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Nov-2022 13:00:44 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     • SNAKESLIGHT
     lie-breboot? :-(
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     SNAKESLIGHT (snakeslight@social.linux.pizza)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Nov-2022 13:00:49 JST SNAKESLIGHT

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     @redstarfish quote from their policy page
     "The libreboot position is more like an opinion, as opposed to an actual policy. That opinion is this: some freedom is better than zero freedom."
     Lol what they should just rebrand to libre-ishboot

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 07:06:57 JST SuperDicq

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     • postmarketOS
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     @vitali64sur@mamot.fr @redstarfish@social.linux.pizza @postmarketOS@fosstodon.org A fork is necessary to get Libreboot to be FSDG compliant again tho.

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     ~f (vitali64sur@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 07:06:58 JST ~f

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     • SuperDicq
     • postmarketOS

     @SuperDicq @redstarfish No. That isn't necessary. I'm going to send a patch to make lbmk ask the user if they want blobs regardless of the board (proceed at your own risk!), just like what @postmarketOS does.

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 07:06:59 JST SuperDicq

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     @redstarfish@social.linux.pizza At least they are still allowing you to build Libreboot without blobs using the "FSDG=" flag.
     
     I think it's stupid to call this option FSDG because the Free System Distribution Guidelines clearly states that "documentation must take care not to recommend nonfree software." which it is clearly doing.
     
     So, what's going to happen now? Do we have to fork Libreboot to make it an official GNU package again?