On 2/6/22 11:57 PM, Ibsen S Ripsbusker wrote:
> My great and good friends,
>
> Like 20 years ago while trying to install OpenBSD
> for the first time I read a short passage in OpenBSD
> documentation that I really liked. Does anyone know
> where I can find it?
>
> The passage that said very directly that we license OpenBSD
> permissively because we know our software is especially
> good in comparison to the consistently broken proprietary
> majority and we prefer that proprietary projects copy our good
> software so they don't create more broken software.
>
> With appreciation,
> Ibsen
Probably be one of these two pages, I think:
https://www.openbsd.org/goals.html
https://www.openbsd.org/policy.html
I call it the "Microsoft Question": which do you fear more?
1) That MS uses your code and profits from your work
--> you might want to consider the GPL license
2) That MS DOESN'T use your code and reinvents it badly
--> You might want to use an ISC/BSD license.
The OpenBSD project would greatly prefer that their code be
reused, rather than re-invented poorly.
Nick.
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