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.
