On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:52:55 -0600
Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org> wrote:
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> > 
> > There's non-free software in the ports tree.
> 
> Not in a real sense.  The ports tree is a build infrastructure
> containing Makefiles, lists of files and where they should go, and (in
> a perfect world, continously shrinking) minimal patches.  It does not
> contain source, per se.  There are small code snippets which are
> _patches_, but the patches are largely of no great consequences.  They
> exist to adapt foreign software to our interfaces, and the idea is
> that those patches should eventually be fed upsteam, or become
> unneccesary.
> 

Yes, that is true.  I believe we had a discussion about this with
a certain individual not that long ago.  In my view the ports tree
merely contain /pointers/ to some non-free software which the user
can choose to use or not.  "There's non-free software /in/ the ports
tree" was not entirely accurate.