On Dec 7, 2007 4:15 PM, Daniel Ouellet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Dec 7, 2007 5:10 PM Subject: Re: lighttpd license To: Ste Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
