OpenBSD
Project Goals
Each person working on OpenBSD has their own aims and priorities,
but the goals of project as a whole are to:
- Provide the best development platform possible - with full source access
for developers and users.
- Work towards a machine independent source tree.
- Pay attention to security problems and fix them.
- Work towards greater integration of cryptographic software where
possible. This means IPsec, IPv6, key engines, and other forms
of strong crypto. OpenBSD is from Canada and may export crypto.
- Track and implement standards (POSIX, parts of X/Open, etc.)
- 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.
- Integrate good code from any source with acceptable copyright
(Berkeley style preferred, GPL acceptable, NDA not).
- Import external packages with minimal modifications - making upgrading
much easier. Also to submit back to the developers any changes made.
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