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"Fixing" it in a way that guarantees that the changes will not be pulled back into OpenSSL has the following problems:

* the fork will lag behind when new features are introduced into OpenSSL

* the fork will lag behind when new fixes for OpenSSL are implemented

This creates a permanent maintenance burden for the LibreSSL maintainers; sure they have attention now, but in 3 months nobody will give a shit any more.



Unless the rest of the world switches to using LibreSSL by default, (eg. for security reasons). Then the situation could reverse.

Given the state of the OpenSSL codebase, I think this has a greater chance of happening than most other forks.


> "Fixing" it in a way that guarantees that the changes will not be pulled back into OpenSSL has the following problems:

> * the fork will lag behind when new features are introduced into OpenSSL

> * the fork will lag behind when new fixes for OpenSSL are implemented

> This creates a permanent maintenance burden for the LibreSSL maintainers; sure they have attention now, but in 3 months nobody will give a shit any more.

So, it's gonna be apache all over again. Where they maintained their own fork, with no security patches applied.

Or perhaps like OpenSSH, where a linux user is forced to `./configure && make && make install'.

I'm trusting your opinion, after careful reviewing of all your commits. :)

/irony off




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