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
