for Reasons™, I spent a day or so making an unofficial port of the Pale Moon web browser to NetBSD
I patched in all the goodies I've worked on for Firefox on NetBSD over the years, including our MPROTECT security enhancement, which at some point stopped working with mainline Firefox
@onepict i've probably said this 100+ times now - this policy is for committers (foundation members) only, who've all _already_ signed contracts with a clause about tainted code.
the policy is for base only, which has strict rules about copyright for Reasons™[0]. We are not opting out of running any third-party code that might have used an auto-completion tool. Since the BSD license requires strict attribution, our code in base can't be used to train LLMs either.
@iwein This is a hiring policy - it's part of the developer contract that all new members of the Foundation are required to sign. Foundation membership is required for commit access.
@mark This is one of the sets of rules that every person with commit access has to follow. Becoming a committer is not easy, it requires joining the Foundation and signing various contracts that place the burden of responsibility on the member. It's a fairly reasonable assumption that we should be able to trust our members, and if not they shouldn't be members.
@daniel_collin@asmodai This is one of the sets of rules that every person with commit access has to follow. Becoming a committer is not easy, it requires joining the Foundation and signing various contracts that place the burden of responsibility on the member. It's a fairly reasonable assumption that we should be able to trust our members, and if not they shouldn't be members.
New development policy: code generated by a large language model or similar technology (e.g. ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) is presumed to be tainted (i.e. of unclear copyright, not fitting NetBSD's licensing goals) and cannot be committed to NetBSD.
@rl_dane@ivan Lot of recent fixes for pkgsrc on Mac OS X 10.4 too, making it a great choice for a distraction-free artistic and programmer workstation that can do everything except the modern web.
We make a fast and secure open source Unix-like operating system for all of your computing devices, whether they be Raspberry Pis, EdgeRouters, ThinkPads, servers, or SPARCstations. Check the about page: https://www.NetBSD.org/about/We pioneered cross-platform package management with #pkgsrc, anykernels, and TCP/IP in space.Not cross-posted from the bird website ;)