William Boshuck wrote: > On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 05:24:48PM -0500, David H. Lynch Jr. wrote: > >> Ray Percival wrote: >> > [quoting and excerpt from Theo's log message in (e.g.): > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/etc/Attic/ipf.rules] > ... > >>> But software which OpenBSD uses and redistributes must be free to all >>> (be they people or companies), for any purpose they wish to use it, >>> including modification, use, peeing on, or even integration into baby >>> mulching machines or atomic bombs to be dropped on Australia. >>> Theo [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list, May 29, 2001 >>> >> That's fine, it is a statement of values and principals, that is exactly >> what I was looking for - something that is conspicuously absent from the >> OpenBSD web site. >> > > Apart from the rhetorical flourish at the end, > that's in the second item in the list near the > top of http://www.openbsd.org/goals.html. (The > "ANY PURPOSE" part goes way back, to the summer > of '97.) > > Not to mention policy.html. > the statements are different. Unless I am to interpret we want to make available source code, as equivalent to Software which openbsd uses and distrubutes must be free to all.
Must is significantly different from want we want to make available source code is not the same as software which openbsd uses and distributes. Regardless, apply it to ports and remove non-free URL's.
