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It's called openrsync because it's developed for and by OpenBSD.


Fun fact, the “open” in OpenBSD doesn’t refer to open source licensing, but to an open development process, including the ability to anonymously checkout the CVS repository without an account, which was a novelty in the 90s.


I truly respect OpenBSD, but I hope they won't end up writing openopenssl :-)

(I will admit: I had to check and openssh is actually "the OpenBSD Secure Shell" project, so I guess it makes sense :-) ).


They called their openssl fork libressl - I assume because of exactly that naming conflict - but most of their "exports" follow the convention; OpenBSD, OpenSMTPD, OpenNTPD, OpenSSH. Possibly others that I don't know off the top of my head.


Sorry, OpenBSD already wrote libressl and libtls


Well "libressl" doesn't sound like an open-source rewrite of the proprietary "openssl" :-).

I don't really get the point about libtls, though.

But I get it, OpenBSD has been using Open* as a prefix for many projects, I didn't know it :-).




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