Where is your line in the sand?  When does an operating system become  
    free by your interpretation?  When non-free ports frameworks are  
    hosted outside the official OpenBSD cvs repository?  On a server not  
    owned by the OpenBSD project?

If they are published by someone else, and OpenBSD doesn't point
people at them, then OpenBSD is not responsible for them.

Helping people install non-free software is bad, just as developing
and distributing non-free software is bad.  But if OpenBSD doesn't
participate in spreading that information, it's not OpenBSD's fault.

                                   What if I want to host it on my own  
    server, but I also happen to be an OpenBSD developer?

I don't think it matters whether you're an OpenBSD developer.  What
matters is whether OpenBSD (in the distribution and its servers) says
anything to leads users to that information.  Mentioning your name in
other some context, such as to thank you for your contributions, would
not lead people to look at your site for non-free software, so it is
not an issue.

If OpenBSD eliminates the non-free programs from the ports system
that it recommends to users, then I will consider it good.

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