On Dec 7, 2007 3:51 PM, Daniel Ouellet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jason George wrote: > >> Here is two messages from Hugo Leisink (Hiawatha developer). You'll > >> note that the first has a newer date than the later, that's because I > >> delete it, and I asked Hugo to send it to me again :P > >> > >> Thought that his words could be useful. > > It is interesting and honestly I didn't know about this one before your > post. I went and looked at it. Interesting and I may actually try it in > real productions to see how it goes. > > I actually would welcome a replacement for apache in base and I sure > would work to make it happen if there really was a will for it, but I > don't see that happening anytime soon. Plus the license of any such > software would need to be BSD to be consider to start with. Again, I > only speak for myself, not the project as I have no business doing so > and they sure can do it for themselves. But I guess Hugo sadly was > pretty clear that he would never drop the GPL license and as such there > isn't any chance in the world to make that happen then. That's his work, > so his license choice for sure and I definitely respect his choice. I > wish it was different, but again, not my place to say here. > > The only other that might be one day have a chance could be lighttpd as > it is BSD based, but for the last few months I still try to actually see > the license and it's still not available: > > http://www.lighttpd.net/download/COPYING > > As for his comments on attitude, he might be right, all depend. Code is > judge on merits and OpenBSD list is not a place for the faint of hart > for sure. Let say it doesn't take prisoners. I am not the most kind at > time either and so far each time was after a lots of frustrations where > some looser just doesn't get it, or don't make any effort, but expect > everyone else to do it form him. > > So, it's great that you contacted him and see where he might be, but the > biggest road block I see his the license for sure. > > There is a few things I would love to see changed in the based system, > but these are only my view and have no impact what so ever. Apache, Bind > and sendmail are three of them that would remove GPL codes and make it > even more BSD. GCC was on my list as well, but I am very happy to see > that there is some work done to may be one day have GCC in port instead > of base, but again, that's a very long time away from here. > > The short of it is that any software that may have a chance to be > consider to be included in OpenBSD, needs to be BSD, not GPL, or kind of > BSD with some weird string, etc. But BSD, that's pretty clear over the year. > > Thanks > > Now going back under my rock. > > Daniel > >
Just to say lighttpd appears to be BSD licensed http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/browser/trunk/COPYING
