Re: BSD?

Thank you -I did not know that...

On 10/18/26 08:54 PM, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 18, 2026 at 12:16:20AM -0500, steve(dot)b(at)bitmodeler(dot)com wrote:
>> I will discuss this with the BSD maintainers. Thanks!
> Note that FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD all of their own foundation,
> and most of them are have 501(c)(3) status, so that donations by US
> people are tax deductible. The primary value that Software in the
> Public Interest is that it provides the legal and administrative
> umbrella handling donations, contracts, and holding tangible assets
> (e.g., a checking account) and intangible assets (e.g., trademarks,
> copyright). But that's the role of the FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD
> foundations. (This is also the role of the Linux Foundation for
> Linux, and the Free Software Foundation for the GNU project.)
>
> An exception to this is DragonFly BSD, which doesn't have a formal
> foundation supporting it. So perhaps they could request SPI take on
> this role --- however, note that it has the most permissive attitude
> towards Large Language Models of the various BSD development
> communities. For example commit 41fb76421dce ("vkernel: Restore
> MAP_VPAGETABLE support with COW/VPTE fix") in the DragonFly BSD git
> repository, dated December 2025, has in its commit description "NOTE:
> This code was almost fully generated by Claude Opus 4.5".
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Ted