Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 14:53:23 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com> To: Zack Gold <zg@linux.com> Cc: Matthias Gamsjager <mgamsjager@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: OpenSSL vs. LibreSSL (OpenBSD) Message-ID: <20140426045323.GB25316@server.rulingia.com> In-Reply-To: <CAKni=iGLtoBUeNcMq95zDWE9PiuLUoJy=3NyWWcFL=RQx63ekg@mail.gmail.com> References: <20140424223540.627bf130.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <535984EC.7050509@mu.org> <CAHSQbTDoDco9bX%2Bgg9EE6x1Mo3pmyBsC8hbwUfFaYfyS4Qqvug@mail.gmail.com> <20140425033141.GB28939@lonesome.com> <CA%2BD9Qhte7G4UZORiem9Mut9g8kDPGAuUd2ou6ZQgreqkfiy6Lw@mail.gmail.com> <CAKni=iEO-MsFkGoXhp=Ccz_R=TsvPyn-nFPf=iXSLA5hn6y9tA@mail.gmail.com> <CA%2BD9Qhv2CWxjc5=byR6fG2qMvrptaYfiO4JtDy91XG_N_UuTbw@mail.gmail.com> <CAKni=iGLtoBUeNcMq95zDWE9PiuLUoJy=3NyWWcFL=RQx63ekg@mail.gmail.com>
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--EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2014-Apr-25 05:00:38 -0400, Zack Gold <zg@linux.com> wrote: >An important thing to note here is motive. The Linux Foundation is >housing this "Core Infrastructure Initiative" project, and so they are >the ones who get all the money. "The Initiative's funds will be >administered by the Linux Foundation and a steering group comprised of >backers of the project as well as key open source developers and other >industry stakeholders." So, it might be in the interest of these >people to not necessarily fix bugs. They might be interested in other >things, like ownership. Though, this may be a bit irrational. It has occurred to me that Linux (in general, not the Foundation) contains a number of religious zealots and the current OpenSSL license is not in keeping with their religion. And there have been previous cases where portable open source software has passed into the maintainership of Linux groups and had all the cross-platform code excised to make it Linux-only. --=20 Peter Jeremy --EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (FreeBSD) iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJTWzvDXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXRFRUIyOTg2QzMwNjcxRTc0RTY1QzIyN0Ux NkE1OTdBMEU0QTIwQjM0AAoJEBall6Dkogs0nIwQAIN2MGWiFBYrcuPQku2ge6Sv 0/5EY4zw0EnoEsYHsVobEAM9llIVmFLZPGUap+XHsm/v9Gti25A0dmDG5e7TYBlz g0bAF+tGF/aE3GH0ro8PoWGZ5rG1oR7l3fPIeYpKRJAA6d5+qu4q3grWsNee62hx /kbvIARlgFwtd5ycNzSToiXPwuc1cMLjvLHk0BZxwNL2Uyvsw4tm9WjL/IUcdfTO OHgLkBQc1Yvky2RcHlH3FuWOPfV38nY7BqmXFRQjvUcoWxGDt/AY/3pkVFJXtOY8 6oFUvXM9GwQ7RjSy8dlAv25PUnw9iJd/r2CqcwgwhUZPRJnISJzn2IJ8U+HUFmOL CiiVjpS8vRltEhSAnr5L21JPqiiD1UK1IFg26cjN6HvbtOytjlFIHY3NzDYzZN+2 +Ouis9nk08H2Be8a6hxuJFibWJt9wcNghV7g2odh8Tb4Vr6LQ7ZpjSSnXm+EBGtz 6XbkVvlS05LqwFDIl8lEP3/Zy7tD0ZFhtOXsFqzJcJzHYO05YVHsLYLdUb/uzWsp lGA+RVkRpR+baWHnjAi1YbOKAWg7Fka7Cjzd7qYv2l8zWQnCvz5B2KQZ66udXcW1 9gooX2BOlupm6PGAH5/qJl2bGosQDwQVWiSWQUymKUHCUiYqPWvY+z9m/TZIjQDA a/JM2cL6NMXBwuSkBmr+ =L7v8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU--
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