On 12/06/07, Brendan O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It doesn't appear that OpenBSD's problem is political in nature.

http://openbsd.org/policy.html

The important section to this discussion would be the one on the GPL and
copyleft; they don't like it. They would be willing to consider it for
non-core things as long as it's separable-- so that OpenBSD itself can
be put into commercial products without source release.

The CDDL, while it's GPL-incompatible, still includes some copyleft
which would seem to make it subject to this same restriction in OpenBSD.
Of course, the way to get a definitive answer on that would be to ask
their founder; I know that Theo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has always been
willing to share his beliefs on licensing.

They seem to treat all copyleft licenses as one requiring all works be
distributed under them, meaning, they don't seem to fairly or
accurately represent other copyleft licenses such as MPL, CDDL, etc.

As you said, someone just needs to ask Theo.

--
"Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright

Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/
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