Product-friendly licensing OpenBSD's has extremely stringent licensing standards Comprehensive licensing audit Bulk of the code is BSD licensed Much is 2 or 3 clause BSD New code targeting ISC-style license (equivalent to 2 clause BSD) GPL code is clearly identified (and constantly diminishing) What does this mean? You can ship the whole OS as part of your product if you want Applications developed on OpenBSD can be "applianced" trivially No "hidden functionality" binary components