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Am I the only one finding that "openrsync" sounds like "rsync" is not open source? I find it a bit confusing because rsync is GPL.

Just like I would find it weird for a project to be called openlinux or librelinux...

Still it's great to have multiple implementations, of course!

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It's called openrsync because it's developed for and by OpenBSD.

I truly respect OpenBSD, but I hope they won't end up writing openopenssl :-)

(I will admit: I had to check and openssh is actually "the OpenBSD Secure Shell" project, so I guess it makes sense :-) ).

Sorry, OpenBSD already wrote libressl and libtls

Well "libressl" doesn't sound like an open-source rewrite of the proprietary "openssl" :-).

I don't really get the point about libtls, though.

But I get it, OpenBSD has been using Open* as a prefix for many projects, I didn't know it :-).

They called their openssl fork libressl - I assume because of exactly that naming conflict - but most of their "exports" follow the convention; OpenBSD, OpenSMTPD, OpenNTPD, OpenSSH. Possibly others that I don't know off the top of my head.

Fun fact, the “open” in OpenBSD doesn’t refer to open source licensing, but to an open development process, including the ability to anonymously checkout the CVS repository without an account, which was a novelty in the 90s.

linux-libre is a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux-libre

Their intent with the naming is indeed to say that Linux isn't open-source enough.

"free" != open

open != "free"

Are you trying to imply that GPL is not open source?

one is software anarchism, the other is software communism

Can you give me one open-source license that is not "free software"?

According to .... the FSF? They disapprove of a lot of licenses that meet OSI's definition of open source.

There's quite a number in this list that meet OSI's definition (or are even explicitly approved by OSI), but are explicitly labelled non-free by FSF:

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#NonFreeSoftwa...

Two clear examples are:

Apple Public Source License 1.x

NASA Open Source Agreement

The venn diagram of licenses that are "free software" and "open source software" is practically a circle.

Both rsync and openrsync are both free software and open source software.

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