Hi, Aaron Mason wrote on Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 11:21:37AM +1000: > On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 3:25 AM Nathan Hartman wrote:
>> 9. Apache license. Not BSD but much closer than any GPL revision. > Yeah, hard pass. The Apache license is full of encumbering legalese. > They stopped including Apache in base (after supporting a 1.x tree for > years) for this very reason. Not exactly; the reason for dropping the Apache 1.3 HTTP daemon wasn't licensing, but rather that 1.3 proved a dead end, 2.0 would hardly have been considered no matter the license, whereas nginx looked useful and viable back in the day; nobody expected that nginx would also become unmaintainable within less than three years. But all's well that ends with httpd(8)... :-) You are right, though, that "closer" is not "close enough" in this case: see https://www.openbsd.org/policy.html for details, search for "Apache" in that page. Yours Ingo
