> 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
>
>
