Bug#1036751: RFS: mini-httpd/1.30-4 [ITA] -- Small HTTP server
Hello again,
> I hope that the forests aren't burning, wherever you are.
>
> Take care,
Oh damn, I really hope you and your family are going to be safe if you're facing wildfires near you..
Here in Eastern Europe it's not really that much of an issue, thankfully.
> remember the original NCSA httpd licence. P.S. It feels like
> archaeology to find missing documentation for something from the dawn of
> the Web! Also, it's a mystery to me what license the original httpd
> was.
It's pretty much a mistery to me too, seems like the original "License" if you could call it that is nothing more than:
"
Copyright (C) 2022 by Jef Poskanzer <jef@mail.acme.com>.
All rights reserved.
You may use this software however you like as long as you keep my name on it and don't sue me.
"
This is the current license (Author:So what does the legalese mean? This is a modified version of the BSD license). I'll try to dig a bit more about original source code license, if any other than the above was ever present :)
Yeah, archeology indeed, I've had the same issue,believe it or not, when porting a certain version of a vintage telnet library from the 80s on modern hardware. Fun times, indeed
Stay safe and good luck !
Alexandru
------- Original Message -------
On Monday, June 12th, 2023 at 9:01 PM, Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Alexandru,
>
> Alexandru Mihail alexandru_mihail@protonmail.ch writes:
>
> > Hello Nicholas,
> >
> > > Sorry, my mistake. I meant to write "debian/copyright". One or more
> > > entries in the copyright file conflicts with upstream evidence.
> >
> > No problem, I think I found what you were referring to and corrected our copyright, upstream is right. I documented the changes in the changelog.
>
>
> Aha, yes, that's 1/2 of what I was referring to :) The other half are
> those copyright years that predate the 1999 claimed in our copyright
> file.
>
> I also found what looks like a new issue: Those files that Rob McCool
> authored as part of NCSA httpd that are part of mini-httpd, what
> license are they? Attribution would be required if they were MIT/Expat,
> BSD, or similar. This issue might also affect apache2's copyright file,
> if anything remains of NCSA in Apache. Httpd predates the "NCSA"
> license, by the way. If you can't find anything about it, then consider
> contacting the debian-legal mailing list, because someone there might
> remember the original NCSA httpd licence. P.S. It feels like
> archaeology to find missing documentation for something from the dawn of
> the Web! Also, it's a mystery to me what license the original httpd
> was.
>
> > > > > Would you please push your work to your personal Salsa namespace (fork
> > > > > relationship optional), and provide the link to the repo?
> >
> > https://salsa.debian.org/alexandru_mihail/mini-httpd
> > Forked from master of:
> > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/mini-httpd
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> > > speaking these patch fixups aren't release critical, and you can ignore
> > > them if you'd like.
> > > I will fix them, it's fine :)
>
>
> Thank you :)
>
> > Also, I uploaded again to mentors last night.
> > Thanks and farewell,
>
>
> You're welcome. We're in the last round of review, by the way, and I
> think it will be ready to upload with the next update.
>
> I hope that the forests aren't burning, wherever you are.
>
> Take care,
> Nicholas
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