LibrePhone project
The
Free Software Foundation
(FSF)
has been working on
software
freedom
in computing for 40 years now, and now (starting Aug 11th, 2025), we
are venturing into what we have found to be one of the most
challenging areas of computing: Mobile phones. Most individuals
do a lot of their computing on mobile phones.
A lot of work is being done in mobile phone freedom. However,
mobile phone computing remains largely nonfree due to a wide
range of nonfree software blobs that commonly occur in even the
most progressive "free software" operating systems.
LibrePhone is the FSF's project to free up those
blobs.
This project's goal is not another Android
distribution
, but a long-term project to better
understand and reverse-engineer the nonfree blobs used
by virtually all SoCs made today. For more on the
current state of mobile phone freedom, see
our
software freedom
page.
Launched on FSF's 40th anniversary, our aim is to bring mobile
phone users into the "free world" we've
already
created
for servers and desktops. As far as we know, a
project as ambitious as this hasn't been attempted before. That
means that if we're going to succeed, we need
your
help.
Donate today
The FSF conducted an interview with LibrePhone lead developer
Rob Savoye
. You
can listen to it on the
FSF website
Ogg Vorbis format
).
For more information, an
FAQ
, and the
project documentation
are available. There's
an initial IRC channel at irc.libera.chat:6697,
#librephone or
join via webchat
Please join the community!