@p >LILO is free software,
Unfortunately, what I cloned from `git clone https://salsa.debian.org/joowie-guest/upstream_lilo` appears to be nonfree.

Under src/ I see files that say;
/* boot.c - Boot image composition
*
* Copyright 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
* Copyright 1999-2007 John Coffman
* Copyright 2009-2011 Joachim Wiedorn
* All rights reserved.
*
* Licensed under the terms contained in the file 'COPYING'
* in the source directory.
*/

There is no COPYING file in a directory called "source" - so the "All rights reserved" part may apply.

A court may apply common sense and note that the COPYING file in the project root is the intended one, or it may not.

That is a trivial bootloader that doesn't contain absolutely proprietary software for the sole reason being that there wasn't any proprietary software that could be added.


Software under weak licenses are almost always sloppy legally, which means there is no certainty you are granted freedom, while free software under a freedom-defending license that proudly states it is free software is always rock solid legally, so for me it's the functionally and legally superior GRUB2.