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Re:First release of LibreSSL portable is available by hobarrera on Saturday July 12, 2014 @04:01AM (#8023991)
License is one of the reasons. OpenBSD uses the BSD license, and has a strong preference for it when it comes to the base system, base tools, etc. There's no chance they'll move something so critical to GPL-licensed software.
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Re:First release of LibreSSL portable is available by clarry on Saturday July 12, 2014 @04:34AM (#8024027) 

  $ uname
  OpenBSD
  $ cvs -v

  Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.1p1 (client/server)

  Copyright (c) 1989-2001 Brian Berliner, david d `zoo' zuhn, 
                          Jeff Polk, and other authors

  CVS may be copied only under the terms of the GNU General Public License,
  a copy of which can be found with the CVS distribution kit.

  Specify the --help option for further information about CVS
Unfortunately CVS isn't the only GPL-licensed piece of software in OpenBSD. But slowly, one by one, these things seem to get replaced with free and better alternatives. I can imagine a future in which we're free of GPL tentacles.
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