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OpenBSD 3.7 Reviewed

Posted by Hemos on from the good-stuff-to-read dept.

busfahrer writes "Jem Matzan has written a review of OpenBSD 3.7 for Newsforge. He talks about their licensing issues, network features, upgrading packages and the new supported architectures."

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  1. Re:Declare your bias, why don't you? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative
    You have issues with BSD licensing? How much freeer do you want it?

    RTFA. The issue mentioned is that OpenBSD folks object to the Apache 2 licence, and so OpenBSD won't get Apache 2.
    In fact you won't even find Apache 2, because its license is more restrictive than its predecessor. OpenBSD 3.7 includes a heavily modified version of Apache 1.3.29 instead.
  2. Re:Declare your bias, why don't you? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Fact 1: BSD license isn't free enough to allow merging in GPLed code.
    Fact 2: GPL isn't free enough to allow merging in BSD licensed code.

    No, the modified BSD licence - which everyone uses nowadays - allows you to mix BSD and GPL code. The result is always GPL.

    But that's not the issue here - RTFA.