Re: BSD?

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