On Dec 7, 2007 4:15 PM, Daniel Ouellet  wrote:

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> Ste Jones wrote:

> > Just to say lighttpd appears to be BSD licensed

> > http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/browser/trunk/COPYING

>

> Between appears to be and being, there is a difference.

>

> Right from the home page,

>

> http://www.lighttpd.net/

>

> fifth line "And best of all it's Open Source licensed under the revised

> BSD license." have been there for a very long time and the link still is

> dead to the license itself.

>

> I keep looking for it and still not good.

>

> Between appears and being, there is a long way.

>

> Just FYI.

>

> Best,

>

> Daniel

>

I emailed Jan, the lead developer of Lighttpd to see what he said

about the license. His answer is below.... I would like to say that I

have been running lighttpd in production for the last few months with

out too many hiccups. Vhosts, priv sep + chrooting is all there,

aswell as fastcgi binding for those wanting to run php, ruby etc...

But hey I am not an Openbsd developer and can't comment on the

security of lighttpd's code, but I think most people would agree it

would be better to have a maintained piece of BSD software opposed to

a fairly stagnant bit of GPL.
The only downside of lighttpd that I have come across is that it

doesn't support .htaccess files, thus rules have to added to its

config file.
Cheers

Ste
---------- Forwarded message ----------

From: Jan Kneschke

Date: Dec 7, 2007 5:10 PM

Subject: Re: lighttpd license

To: Ste Jones 
It is this at http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/browser/trunk/COPYING
It should be the normal, nowadays BSD license:

http://opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php
cheers,

Jan