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GNU Boot seems to have sent it not for anything in Libreboot itself, but to adress a web page with self-proclaimed “unofficial” GNU Boot releases. They wanted it to stop proclaiming to be “unofficial GNU Boot” releases. Understandable, if a bit antagonistic.

EDIT: Courtesy of user jbit¹, this is the aforementioned web page:

<https://web.archive.org/web/20230719185342/https://libreboot...>

1. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36927233>

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How can they object to "unofficial" releases of Free (tm) software when anyone can pull the code and build it.

Because trademarks still exist. But yeah, IDK why a true free (as in culture) software advocate would care.

Because they'll get the bug reports. It's very annoying having a bunch of "unofficial" releases floating around for a project one maintains.

it's not even the same code

Well, it is GNU Boot code but rebased from newer versions of Libreboot.

GNU Boot seems to be Libreboot with very minor differences (mainly documentation) + removal of binary blobs.

Check https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/libreboot-devel/2023-0... and https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/libreboot-devel/2023-0... to see the patches.

There is also a Savannah repository but history does seem to have been deleted: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnuboot.git

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