Comment by ranger_danger
1 day ago
Many projects closely associated with OpenBSD start with "open"... openssh, openbgpd, openntpd, opensmtpd etc.
1 day ago
Many projects closely associated with OpenBSD start with "open"... openssh, openbgpd, openntpd, opensmtpd etc.
Notable exception, OpenSSL already had the Open prefix so the OpenBSD project is called LibreSSL.
It's tempting to develop a useful but closed source project called "is" and dare them to make an open version of it.
Not many are reimplementations of existing, much more popular, already open source projects.
OpenSSH was a 'reaction' to the original SSH(.com) code getting closed source:
> OpenSSH originated in 1999 as a fork of Björn Grönvall's OSSH, which derived from Tatu Ylönen's original SSH 1.2.12 release, the last version distributed under a license permitting open-source redistribution before Ylönen's subsequent software became proprietary under SSH Communications Security.[4]
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSSH
It was probably the second thing with the Open— prefix by this group of developers, OpenBSD itself being the first. They simply ran with the naming convention. OpenBGP/OSPF were developed as alternatives to Quagga (GPL).
Is rsync going closed source? If not, how is that the same thing?
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Which aren't? It seems all (or most) are.