NOTICE: Suspension of contributors @adamg and @Raybuntu

**LibreELEC** · May 1, 2018 at 4:49 PM Official Post

This morning LibreELEC board member @xe received written notices from GDPR-2 and GDPR-1 demanding their GDPR Article-17 right to have all personal information held by the project deleted from our systems. They have further requested we remove all of their forum posts and purge any data stored on team webspace. To prevent further creation and propagation of their data while we clarify our GDPR obligations and investigate what technical steps may be required, we have suspended their accounts.

It's a shame to see this level of deliberately awkward activity, but we aren't going to fight their decision. Other forks in our ecosystem (Lakka, OpenPHT, PlexEmbedded, etc.) exist happily as derivatives of LibreELEC and their team members regularly and proactively contribute to our codebase. From the outset CoreELEC proclaimed total independence and leading team members have repeatedly stated they will not contribute back to LibreELEC. We don't really care that CoreELEC exists and we've been ignoring derogatory statements for the sake of peace, but continuing to host their drama and noise in our forum has zero upside for LibreELEC if they refuse to participate in our project. It is unclear whether other CoreELEC contributors with presence in our forum will request the same trip to /dev/null or would prefer to retain their status and become supportive and helpful participants to our project.

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**vpeter** · May 1, 2018 at 5:23 PM

As usual not only truth written

**milhouse** · May 1, 2018 at 6:37 PM

vpeter: If you believe there to be any inaccuracy then by all means post more detail, however you haven't been present on LibreELEC Slack for several months (your choice) so you may not be aware of all the drama prior to Adam making the decision to quit Team LibreELEC. However, I'm sure you're aware of the derogatory comments subsequently made on other forums so I'm really not sure what issue you have, unless you believe Adams side of the story (hint: don't).

As for the events of today, they are exactly as described and we are investigating what needs to be done under EU regulations.

**vpeter** · May 1, 2018 at 7:13 PM

From Adam:

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I have to say I am rather perplexed by this announcement to say the least.

On the subject of derogatory comments there has been comments by Team LE members stating that CE is full of hacks on public forums which I deem to be derogatory and unfair so this is not as 1 sided as has been made out.

Now to the crux of the issue, my decision to leave Slack was purely for the stress induced on me by the constant battling to add support for S905/S912 to LE officially, there was so much resistance and objection to it especially from lrusak. If memory serves me correctly Rockchip and Allwinner was constantly used as examples of how vendors should work with us and there was no interest in adding support for a vendor that doesn't play ball. Raybuntu pushed through the S905/S912 support PRs despite the objections and that is the only reason it exists now in LE. Then there was the knitpicking, fighting and personal comments especially from milhouse. So I didn't want to be a part of that anymore understandably.

I tried my utmost and hardest to be a part of LE and a part of the Team to no avail, the environment is hostile and I never once received a thank you for your contribution from anybody. I tried to communicate my issues with chewitt on many occasions and was ignored, you have to know when to give up.

I have not been deliberately awkward and have always credited LE both on GitHub and publically in forums and make no attempt to pass CE off as anything other than a minor fork of LE. I said in team discussions that I did not want it to be another OE <>CE situation.

Now my decision to be asked to be deleted from these forums is a totally different matter and is purely as a result of the new community builds policy that I deem to be draconian and anti-FOSS.

Myself and Ray have continued to contribute to LE since we created the fork by still helping users with LE/kszaq builds so saying we are refusing to participate is nonsense.

To be able to use LE assets (forum) we now have to use LE branding/ versioning and upstream fixes which are incompatible with LE, CE is not compatible with this stringent set of requirements clearly and neither is OpenPHT and the flux of other forks that exist.

There is far too much animosity here as shown by the posts above and I no longer wish to be a part of any of it.

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