"Theo de Raadt" writes: > > Is there, by chance, such a breakdown available for these already? > > No. We did our best.
To be fair, these statements are potentially contradictory. If you (plural) only "did your best" (and what more could have been done?) then it is at least in *theory* possible that some mis-licensed piece of code slipped through. In fact I expect this didn't happen, but regardless ... > Always interesting that the more one works in the free software > space, the more constraints get added by the public. > > Sometimes it is almost like there is a stream of people who want us > to stop trying. > > And quit. Some of you can see it, right? ... as more time goes by the more damage and less advantage I see by the existence of software licenses. I signed up to this life to be a programmer not a lawyer and over the years I've spent dealing in various parts of the computer ecosystem I've seen them causing more harm than good in practically every case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_and_open-source_software_licenses describes a sorry state of affairs. So much good technology has been lost, and so much potential for cooperation has been squandered, by schoolyard bickering between the ignorant over irrelevant (and I might add, euro/anglo-centric) ideas of propriety. Why did BeOS and QNX, among many many others, dwindle into obscurity? Why are zfs, jails, kvm, pf not integrated into every operating system? Why are hardware drivers not developed centrally? Why do we have half a dozen java (the write-once run no^H^Hanywhere language) implementations? Why did Debian waste some of our limited effort on a useless and disruptive fork of mozilla? Why does mariadb even exist? X? Et cetera. Such a terrible waste. We have become divided at our own hand and are being slowly conquered, and who does it benefit? The public? Other programmers? The state of the art? Matthew
