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Re: The new apache license



On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Theo de Raadt wrote:

> And another license issue..
> 
> The new apache license is not acceptable.  Code written under that
> new license will never go into our tree.
> 
> Look, I am quite frankly getting sick and tired of this.  It is time
> for the user community to tell these software developers who have
> gotten themselves involved with lawyers to stop it.  They are NOT
> making their software better, they are NOT protecting anyone, and
> they we NOT making their software any more free when they add new
> terms.
> 
> As of this moment in time, therefore, it looks like the httpd in
> OpenBSD has now become a fork.  It will continue to be managed
> under the existing license.

What about having a more simplistic httpd server in the tree, such as
Art's ursus?  ftp://ftp.blahonga.org/pub/ursus-20030927.tar.gz

Then letting someone create/maintain port for the 1.3.x and 2.x line?

diana