On May 8, 2006, at 9:10 AM, Thom May wrote:

* Garrett Rooney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote :
On 5/8/06, Thom May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hey,
just had a report in debian that test/zb.c's license doesn't necessarily allow you to modify and redistribute the code. A quick grep around doesn't
reveal any uses of this code in our tree, and given that we have
support/ab.c it seems strange to carry both.
Can we just drop it?

Isn't ab.c derived from zb.c?  If so, isn't that kind of problematic
with regard to this licensing issue?

No, ab.c is licensed under the apache license. I assume, although I've not
checked, that there's a grant from Zeus on file that allowed us to
relicense the code for ab.

The log message that kicks off ab.c:

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r80572 | rse | 1998-03-17 04:46:42 -0800 (Tue, 17 Mar 1998) | 19 lines

Include of the new "ApacheBench" support program:

  o base is ZeusBench 1.0 from Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd.

o includes enhancements by Dean from November 1997 for keepalive, SunOS4,
    etc. pp. which were already committed to src/test/zb.c

  o cleanups and enhancements by Ralf from March 1998: command line
    parsing, new options, URL-like target specification, manual page,
    Apache-style code indentation, etc.

o !!IMPORTANT!! personal license agreement from March 1998 with Adam Twiss
    from Zeus Technology (see message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in apache-core mailing list for reference) to include this version into the Apache distribution the
    way it currently is. So, don't change copyright messages or other
license stuff there, please. The program itself can now be enhanced or
    changed in any way.

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Found on http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi?rev=80572&view=rev

Does an archive of that apache-core mailing list mentioned above exist?

Do we need zb.c to be in our tree? Or can we declare it superseded by ab.c? If only to help out our friends over at Debian?

S.

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