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LibrePhone

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LibrePhone is an initiative by the FSF with the goal of bringing full freedom to the mobile computing environment.

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Free Software Foundation Is Serious About The Librephone Project [To Bring Mobile Freedom To The Masses] (news.itsfoss.com)
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[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

The initiative aims to reverse-engineer and replace proprietary blobs (binary blobs) in mobile devices. Now we have more details on this mammoth undertaking.

What's Happening: The Librephone project represents FSF's most ambitious technical challenge yet. Unlike creating another Android distribution, the project focuses on understanding and liberating proprietary software blobs. These closed-source components exist in almost all mobile system-on-chips (SoCs) today.