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- Provide the best development platform possible.
- Provide full source access to developers and users, including the
- ability to look at CVS tree changes directly.
- Users can even look at our source tree and changes
- directly on the web!
+ Provide full source access to developers and users, including the
+ ability to look at CVS tree changes directly.
+ Users can even look at our source tree and changes
+ directly on the web!
+
- Integrate good code from any source with acceptable
- copyright (ISC or Berkeley style preferred, GPL acceptable as a last
- recourse but not in the kernel, NDA never acceptable).
- We want to make available source code that anyone can use for ANY
- PURPOSE, with no restrictions.
- We strive to make our software robust and secure, and encourage
- companies to use whichever pieces they want to. There are
- commercial spin-offs of OpenBSD.
+ copyright (ISC or Berkeley style preferred, GPL acceptable as a last
+ recourse but not in the kernel, NDA never acceptable).
+ We want to make available source code that anyone can use for ANY
+ PURPOSE, with no restrictions.
+ We strive to make our software robust and secure, and encourage
+ companies to use whichever pieces they want to. There are
+ commercial spin-offs of OpenBSD.
+
- Pay attention to security problems and fix
- them before anyone else does. (Try to be the #1 most
- secure operating system.)
+ them before anyone else does. (Try to be the #1 most
+ secure operating system.)
+
- Greater integration of cryptographic software.
- This means IPsec, key engines, Kerberos,
- and other forms of strong crypto or crypto-using systems.
- OpenBSD is developed and released from Canada and due to Canadian
- law it is legal to export crypto to the world (as
-
- researched by a Canadian individual and as
-
- documented in the Export Control list of Canada).
- OpenBSD developers are doing active research and development on
- IPsec.
-
- Track and implement standards (ANSI, POSIX, parts of X/Open, etc.)
+ This means IPsec, key engines, Kerberos,
+ and other forms of strong crypto or crypto-using systems.
+ OpenBSD is developed and released from Canada and due to Canadian
+ law it is legal to export crypto to the world (as
+
+ researched by a Canadian individual and as
+
+ documented in the Export Control list of Canada).
+ OpenBSD developers are doing active research and development on
+ IPsec.
+
+
- Track and implement standards (ANSI, POSIX, parts of X/Open, etc.)
+
- Work towards a very machine independent source tree.
- Support as many different systems and hardware
- as feasible.
+ 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.
+ basis of technical merit.
+
- Focus on being developer-oriented in all senses, including holding
- developer-only events called hackathons.
+ developer-only events called hackathons.
+
- Do not let serious problems sit unsolved.
-
- Provide a good cross compile/development platform.
+
+
- 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, in
- particular to fund the project...
+ much easier. Also to submit back to the developers any changes made.
+
+
- Make a CDROM-based release approximately every six months.
Project Funding
-Naturally, the OpenBSD project requires funds to operate, due to
-Internet line costs and the same hardware upgrade issues everyone
-experiences. For this reason, the project sells CDROMs of our most
-recent release. Thus, when you buy an OpenBSD CD, whether at a
-conference, from one of our other locations, or from our
- CDROM ordering page, you are helping to increase
-the chance that OpenBSD will make future releases.
-
-It is also possible to donate funds or hardware,
-in which case your name ends up on our
-Donations page.
-For more information on this contact
-Theo de Raadt or simply send a
-donation cheque in Canadian or US funds to:
-
-OpenBSD
-812 23rd Ave SE
-Calgary, Alberta
-Canada
-T2G 1N8
-(Make the cheque out to "Theo de Raadt", since I cannot cash cheques made
-out to "OpenBSD".)
-
-
-Additionally, it is now possible to donate money to the project online via
-credit card or
-PayPal.
-
-While donations are not US tax deductible as charitable contribution,
-they may be deductible as an operating expense, and if someone is so
-inclined, they should ask for the advice of their accountant. The
-same applies to other countries, where corporations can make deductible
-donations under the terms of "Good Will".
-
-
-In the beginning, Theo de Raadt spent more than $30,000 (CDN) to start
-OpenBSD, mostly due to expensive networking costs in Canada (due
-to USA crypto policies, it is not possible to move the project to the
-USA). Thus far, no serious funding or cost-sharing of the project
-has come from any company or educational institution.
-Theo works full-time on improving OpenBSD, and much of the project's
-funds are spent to buy developers new hardware so that they can
-continue to improve OpenBSD (for example, more than 20 new kinds of
-Ethernet cards have showed up on the market since OpenBSD was
-started).
-Thus, funding is needed at all times. Continued donations from our
-user base are what will ensure that OpenBSD continues to exist.
-
+See our Donations Page.
Where do our developers live?