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Useful information, related to Libreboot development, including links to the Git repositories where development is done. Libreboot development is discussed on the IRC channel.
Download Libreboot from the Git repository here:
git clone https://notabug.org/libreboot/libreboot.git
General guidelines for submitting patches
We require all patches to be submitted under a free license: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html.
You must declare copyright on your work, and declare a free license. Not declaring copyright, especially if you also don't declare a license, means that the default restrictive copyright laws apply under the Berne convention.
If you wish to submit work without copyright, or with permissive terms, then the Creative Commons Zero license is highly recommended. Otherwise, the GNU General Public License, version 3 or (at your option) any later version, is preferred; we will also accept any other free license.
Libreboot development is facilitated by git, a distributed version control system. You will need to install Git (most GNU+Linux distributions package it in their repositories).
GNU+Linux is generally recommended as the OS of choice, for Libreboot development.
Development discussion, including code review, falls under the Libreboot project's official Code of Conduct.
How to download Libreboot from the Git repository
In your terminal:
git clone https://notabug.org/libreboot/libreboot.git
A new directory named libreboot will have been created, containing libreboot.
How to submit your patches
Make an account on https://notabug.org/ and navigate (while logged in) to https://notabug.org/libreboot/libreboot. Click Fork and in your account, you will have your own repository of Libreboot. Clone your repository, make whatever changes you like to it and then push to your repository, in your account on NotABug.
Now, navigate to https://notabug.org/libreboot/libreboot/pulls and click New Pull Request.
You can submit your patches there. Alternative, you can log onto the Libreboot IRC channel and notify the channel of which patches you want reviewed, if you have your own Git repository with the patches.
Once you have issued a Pull Request, the Libreboot maintainers will be notified via email. If you do not receive a fast enough response from the project, then you could also notify the project via the #libreboot channel on Freenode.