A good portion of LibreSSL's patches are in the form of removing code for dead platforms like VAX/VMS and OS/2, problematic wrappers like openssl_malloc() or p

A good portion of LibreSSL's patches are in the form of removing code for dead platforms like VAX/VMS and OS/2, problematic wrappers like openssl_malloc() or patching the everything-on-by-default approach that OpenSSL takes. The OpenSSL team actively refuses any such patches, which is why LibreSSL was forked in the first place.