The initial work is funded by a donation from FSF board member John Gilmore, who explained, “I have enjoyed using a mobile phone running LineageOS with MicroG and F-Droid for years, which eliminates the spyware and control that Google embeds in standard Android phones. I later discovered that the LineageOS distribution links in significant proprietary binary modules copied from the firmware of particular phones. Rather than accept this sad situation, I looked for collaborators to reverse-engineer and replace those proprietary modules with fully free software, for at least one modern phone.”

This is what the space needs. Hopefully the fsf can succeed where others have not in the reverse engineering.