Support the Libre Tea Computer Card

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Wed Aug 10 22:34:32 PDT 2016


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 at 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 at fsf.org> -----
>Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 20:49:59 -0400
>From: "Donald Robertson, III, FSF" <donald at fsf.org>
>Reply-To: "Donald Robertson, III, FSF" <donald at fsf.org>
>Subject: Support the Libre Tea Computer Card
>
>**Read online:
><https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/support-the-libre-tea-computer-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]: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop
>[2]: 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]: http://rhombus-tech.net
>[4]: 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]: https://www.parabola.nu/
>[6]: 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
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