The OpenBSD Foundation is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 federal non-profit organization

Non-profit organization

Nonprofit organization is neither a legal nor technical definition but generally refers to an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends...

 founded by the OpenBSD

OpenBSD

OpenBSD is a Unix-like computer operating system descended from Berkeley Software Distribution , a Unix derivative developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It was forked from NetBSD by project leader Theo de Raadt in late 1995...

 project "as a single point of contact for persons and organizations requiring a legal entity to deal with when they wish to support OpenBSD." It also serves as a legal safeguard over other projects which are affiliated with OpenBSD, including OpenSSH

OpenSSH

OpenSSH is a set of computer programs providing encrypted communication sessions over a computer network using the SSH protocol...

, OpenBGPD

OpenBGPD

OpenBGPD allows general purpose computers to be used as routers. It is a Unix system daemon that provides a free, open-source implementation of the Border Gateway Protocol version 4. This allows a machine to exchange routes with other systems that speak BGP....

, OpenNTPD

OpenNTPD

OpenNTPD is a Unix system daemon implementing the Network Time Protocol to synchronize the local clock of a computer system with remote NTP servers. It is also able to act as an NTP server to NTP-compatible clients....

, and OpenCVS

OpenCVS

OpenCVS is a BSD-licensed implementation of the popular Unix version control software called Concurrent Versions System. OpenCVS is developed as a part of the OpenBSD project by Jean-Francois Brousseau, Xavier Santolaria, Niall O'Higgins and others....

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It was announced to the public by OpenBSD developer Bob Beck on July 25, 2007.