Jason George wrote:
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>> 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