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2023-05-27Remove most of Ferass's lbmk contributionsLeah Rowe
The primary purpose of my intense auditing has been to improve lbmk's coding style and fix bugs but there is a secondary purpose: know precisely who owns what, because I want to re-license as much as possible of lbmk under *MIT*, instead of the current GNU licensing. MIT is vastly superior, because it grants *actual* freedom to the user, permits *sublicensing* and it is vastly more compatible with other GPL combinations; for example, MIT license is compatible with GPL2-only whereas lbmk's current mix of GPLv3-or-later and GPLv3-only is legally incompatible with GPLv2-only. Re-licensing under MIT will most likely result in more contributions to Libreboot's build system in the future, especially as it will attract a lot more commercial interest. Contrary to the popular arguments, copyleft is a liability to the free software movement and results in less code being written; in practise, permissively licensed code gets more public contributions, including from commercial entities, even if companies can theoretically make something proprietary out of it (in practise, anyone inclined can just use the upstream and proprietary forks almost always die). Copyleft propaganda is fundamentally flawed. See: <https://unixsheikh.com/articles/the-problems-with-the-gpl.html> Anyway, I've been doing a combination of: * Seeking permission from other copyright holders, for re-licensing * Deleting, or moving, other contributions; for example, splitting certain contributions into separate files so that originally modified files become unencumbered. This latter solution is a result of *code cleanup* arising from the audit. For Ferass's contributions, I opted to seek *permission*, and permission was denied. In full compliance with this legal imperative, I'm acting accordingly; this commit removes all of Ferass's changes that converted lbmk to posix shell scripts, thus removing his copyright on the affected files, bypassing his authority entirely. Therefore, lbmk is largely now bash-dependent. In practise, nobody is going to use anything other than a GNU system to build Libreboot, because many projects that Libreboot makes use of rely heavily on GNU; for example, coreboot's build system makes heavy use of GNU-specific extensions in *GNU Make*, and likely contains many bashisms. Of course, Libreboot also compiles GNU GRUB. I would much rather have MIT-licensed Bash scripts than GPL-licensed posix SCL scripts. This reverts the changes from Ferass El Hafidi, for the following commits, with some exceptions: * 7f5dfebf7d37c56d9c7993aaa17c59070cb5aec9 * f787044642236917c9c4dbcaa48a6b0648097db0 Exception: download/mrc not reverted, because that was already a fork of an existing script under coreboot's build system, and their script was GPLv2. i cannot/will not re-license this file (ergo, 7f5dfebf7d37c56d9c7993aaa17c59070cb5aec9 change remains intact, on this file) resources/scripts/build/boot/roms_helper, these changes have been kept: * 7e6691e9 - Add ARMv7 and AArch64 support * dec2d720 - add myself in the build/roms_helper script (added 2021 copyright for the change below) * b7405656 - Workaround for grub's slow boot ^ these changes will be re-factored, splitting them out of the file into a new file. This will be done in a future lbmk revision. (in some cases, it makes sense to keep a change but split it, allowing the main file to be re-licensed without the change in it) This is part of a much larger series of licensing audits. It's likely that lbmk will be posix-compliant (in its shell scripts) again some day, because I'm planning to rewrite most of these scripts (the ones modified in this patch), and many of them (e.g. individual download scripts) are subject to future deletion in a planned overhaul of the download logic for third party projects. In addition: these changes are being kept (no attempt to re-license them will be made): * cff081c6 - Fix grub's slow boot (1 year, 5 months ago) <Vitali64> * 4c851889 - Add macbook*1 16mb configs (1 year, 6 months ago) <Vitali64> Ferass's work that remains will be split into dedicated files containing them, where feasible. In the case of grub.cfg (for GNU GRUB), I don't care because it's a script for an engine (GRUB shell) that's under GPL anyway, so who really cares about MIT license. Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
2023-05-14blobutil/extract: minor code style cleanupLeah Rowe
2023-05-14blobutil/extract: split up extract_blobs()Leah Rowe
2023-05-14blobutil/extract: cleaner coding styleLeah Rowe
removed hardcoded strings, put them in variables use easier to read lowercase for function names
2023-05-14blobutil/extract: simplified main()Leah Rowe
2023-05-14blobutil/extract: top-down logicLeah Rowe
2023-05-14blobutil/extract: RFC 2646 compliance (80 chars)Leah Rowe
2023-03-18haswell: re-add mrc.bin in separate board configsLeah Rowe
libre mrc on haswell is quite buggy for now, but works in a limited fashion this patch re-adds the old configs, but as _mrc for example t440p_12mb_mrc instead of t440p_12mb and t440p_12mb (without _mrc) still uses the libre mrc code
2023-03-18haswell boards: use libre mrc.bin replacementLeah Rowe
courtesy of Angel Pons from the coreboot project this uses the following patch set from gerrit, as yet unmerged (in coreboot master) on this date: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/64198/5 logic for downloading mrc blobs has been deleted from lbmk, as this is now completely obsolete (for haswell boards) if other platforms are added later that need mrc.bin, then logic will be re-added again for that
2022-12-28Do not rely on bashisms and behaviour undefined by the POSIX specification. ↵Ferass 'Vitali64' EL HAFIDI
Part 2 Signed-off-by: Ferass 'Vitali64' EL HAFIDI <vitali64pmemail@protonmail.com>
2022-11-26added more checks and optimised extraction scriptshmalebx9
2022-11-14pragmatic system distribution guideline compliancepsdgLeah Rowe
osboot is now part of libreboot, and will soon shut down. libreboot now conforms to osboot policy.