Were the Allwinner GPL violations ever sorted?
   Would make strange bedfellows for fsf if not :)

   On 11 August 2016 05:59:06 BST, Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net>
   wrote:

OK, this looks functional enough to be useful to at least some folks
around here, yet small enough to be doable, and a useful step towards
RYF/libre computing hardware.
I hope they are successful.
Zenaan
----- Forwarded message from "Donald Robertson, III, FSF" <donald@fsf.org> -----
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 20:49:59 -0400
From: "Donald Robertson, III, FSF" <donald@fsf.org>
Reply-To: "Donald Robertson, III, FSF" <donald@fsf.org>
Subject: Support the Libre Tea Computer Card
**Read online: <[1]https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/support-the-libre-tea-com
puter-card-a-candidate-for-respects-your-freedom-certification>.**
Dear Mr Zenaan Harkness,
The Earth-friendly EOMA68 Computing Devices project is a
crowdfunding
campaign run on Crowd Supply to produce a line of hardware products
that are ecologically responsible and built based on royalty-free,
unencumbered hardware standards. They write:

     "Now imagine if you owned a computing device that you could easily
     fix yourself and inexpensively upgrade as needed. So, instead of
     having to shell out for a completely new computer, you could simply
     spend around US$50 to upgrade — which, by the way, you could easily
     do in SECONDS, by pushing a button on the side of your device and
     just popping in a new computer card. Doesn’t that sound like the way
     it should be?"

     [This project][1] certainly sounds appealing, but only if the
     computer
     hardware is designed and configured to run software that does as
     much
     as possible to respect your freedom and ensure your control over
     your
     device. Fortunately, one option you have when backing this project
     is
     to purchase a Libre Tea Computer Card. After working closely with
     the
     developers and reviewing a sample test board, we are confident that
     their plans are to create a device that can achieve our [Respects
     Your
     Freedom (RYF)][2] certification.
     [1]: [2]https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop
     [2]: [3]https://www.fsf.org/ryf
     The project is being developed by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton of
     [Rhombus-Tech][3] and is sponsored by Christopher Waid of
     [ThinkPenguin][4], a company that sells [multiple RYF-certified
     hardware products][2]. It is exciting to see passionate free
     software
     advocates in our community working with OEMs to produce a computer
     hardware product capable of achieving RYF certification. We hope
     that
     this is the first of many computing systems they are able to design
     and build that respect your freedom.
     [3]: [4]http://rhombus-tech.net
     [4]: [5]https://www.thinkpenguin.com/
     The Libre Tea Computer Card is built with an Allwinner A20 dual core
     processor configured to use the main CPU for graphics; it has 2 GB
     of
     RAM and 8 GB of NAND Flash; and it will come pre-installed with
     [Parabola GNU/Linux-libre][5], an [FSF-endorsed fully-free operating
     system][6].
     [5]: [6]https://www.parabola.nu/
     [6]: [7]https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros
     We encourage you to [back the Libre Tea Computer Card][1]. We'll
     have
     to do another evaluation once it is actually produced to be sure it
     meets our certification standards, but we have high hopes. Their
     funding deadline is August 26th, so don't delay!
     Donald Robertson
     Copyright & Licensing Associate

References

   1. https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/support-the-libre-tea-computer-card-a-candidate-for-respects-your-freedom-certification
   2. https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop
   3. https://www.fsf.org/ryf
   4. http://rhombus-tech.net/
   5. https://www.thinkpenguin.com/
   6. https://www.parabola.nu/
   7. https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros