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Each developer working on OpenBSD has their own aims and priorities,
but it is possible to classify the goals we all share:
-- Provide the best development platform possible - with full source access
- for developers and users. Code should be as FREE as possible, for
- whatever purpose and agenda.
-
- Integrate good code from any source with acceptable copyright
- (Berkeley style preferred, GPL acceptable, NDA not). We want to
- make available source code that anyone can use for ANY PURPOSE,
- with no restrictions. We have a page that describes
- the copyright issues in more detail.
+
- Provide the best development platform possible.
+ Provide full source access to developers and users, including the
+ ability to look at CVS tree change directly.
+ Users can even look at our source tree and changes
+ directly on the web!
+
- Integrate good code from any source with acceptable
+ copyright (Berkeley style preferred, GPL acceptable, NDA not).
+ We want to make available source code that anyone can use for ANY
+ PURPOSE, with no restrictions.
- Pay attention to security problems and fix
them before anyone else does. (Try to be the #1 most
secure operating system).
-
- Work towards a machine independent source tree.
-
- Greater integration of cryptographic software. This means IPsec, IPv6,
+
- Greater integration of cryptographic software.
+ This means IPsec, IPv6,
key engines, and other forms of strong crypto. OpenBSD is developed
and released from Canada and due to Canadian law it is legal to
export crypto to the world. (As
@@ -46,12 +47,16 @@
Photuris key engine.
- Track and implement standards (ANSI, POSIX, parts of X/Open, etc.)
-
- Support as many different systems and hardware as feasible.
+
- Work towards a very machine independent source tree.
+ Support as many different systems and hardware
+ as feasible.
- Be as politics-free as possible; solutions should be decided on the
basis of technical merit.
- Provide a good cross compile/development platform.
- Import external packages with minimal modifications - making upgrading
much easier. Also to submit back to the developers any changes made.
+
- Make a CDROM-based release approximately every
+ six months.
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www@openbsd.org
-$OpenBSD: goals.html,v 1.28 1998/02/21 15:06:56 deraadt Exp $
+$OpenBSD: goals.html,v 1.29 1998/02/22 10:15:23 deraadt Exp $