> Copyright 1997-2024, Theo de Raadt.
Caught my eye. I'm vaguely aware that Theo de Raadt is not the paragon of modesty, but would still expect a more "communal" copyright. Or is OpenBSD largely a one-man show?
Caught my eye. I'm vaguely aware that Theo de Raadt is not the paragon of modesty, but would still expect a more "communal" copyright. Or is OpenBSD largely a one-man show?
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-announce&m=171228270018970&w=2
You will also find separate copyright statements in a lot of the source files and many carry the name of their authors.
https://www.openbsd.org/75.html
I think that is because Theo de Raadt maintains the Site. As someone said the source files have their own copyright comments.
https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aopenbsd%2Fsrc%20copyright...
The Linux kernel development model is one that embraces forking and submitting patching in a way that totally horrifies webdevs paid to mush together data transformation pipelines.
Linus and Greg KH are both very clear that you don't have to use their "blessed" source trees. You're encouraged to fork.
All of the genuinely moronic rhetorical arguments about "maintainer responsibility" are downstream from the GPLv2, which very clearly states in all capital letters there's no warranty implied or otherwise. The amount of time wasted on moot debates over that is mind boggling.
perhaps Theo has a plan for an eventual succession, perhaps not. Sometimes dictators can't really conceive of somebody else running the show so they don't plan for it.