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>Is it guaranteed that this fork will be used in OpenBSD?

It already is used in OpenBSD. The changes are being made in the OpenBSD source tree.

As a Linux fan who has been hearing good things about FreeBSD, will this work out of the box on FreeBSD?

I think it will require a bit of tweaking, but I would expect the other BSDs to adopt it once it is reasonably complete.