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.