Re: [HEADSUP] Deprecation of the ftp support in pkg

Am 23.01.22 um 22:41 schrieb Mehmet Erol Sanliturk:> On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at
11:27 PM Stefan Esser <se@freebsd.org
> <mailto:se@freebsd.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Am 23.01.22 um 18:12 schrieb Jose Quinteiro:
>     > On 1/23/22 09:06, tech-lists wrote:
>     >> On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 08:55:09AM -0800, Jose Quinteiro wrote:
>     >>
>     >>> You can run HTTP on a non-standard port. For example, 8080 is commonly
>     >>> used. As an added bonus, this means that the HTTP server need not run as
>     >>> root.
>     >>
>     >> Unless I'm mistaken, there is no web server in base. There is though, an
>     >> ftp server.
>     >
>     > Touche. I wouldn't mind having Thttpd in base.
>     > https://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/ <https://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/>
> 
>     An interesting idea, we have it as a port in www/thttpd.
> 
>     While we generally rather move base components that are not
>     generally required to ports, this might be a case where it
>     makes sense to replace one base system component by another
>     one currently only available as a port ...
> 
>     The thttpd binary is smaller than the ftpd currently in base,
>     and it might make sense to replace ftpd by this simple httpd:
> 
>     $ size /usr/libexec/ftpd
>        text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>      105901    4276    5984  116161   1c5c1 /usr/libexec/ftpd
> 
>     $ size work/stage/usr/local/sbin/*
>        text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>        5469     656     112    6237    185d work/stage/usr/local/sbin/makeweb
>        7453     760     120    8333    208d work/stage/usr/local/sbin/thtpasswd
>       81184    8336    2280   91800   16698 work/stage/usr/local/sbin/thttpd
> 
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> 
>     The sources are distributed under a 2 clause BSD copyright.
> 
> 
> 
> I checked all of the sources  by downloading related compressed sources ,
> by reading all of the web pages in the shown website , I could not find
> any license information .
> 
> If it is possible for you , would you please supply a link to this license
> information ?

Each individual C source file starts with a Copyright note like this:

/* thttpd.c - tiny/turbo/throttling HTTP server
**
** Copyright © 1995,1998,1999,2000,2001,2015 by
** Jef Poskanzer <jef@mail.acme.com>. All rights reserved.
**
** Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
** modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
** are met:
** 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
**    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
** 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
**    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
**    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
**
** THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
** ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
** IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
** ARE DISCLAIMED.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
** FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
** DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
** OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
** HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
** LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
** OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
** SUCH DAMAGE.
*/

The auto-configure files are under GPL, but not relevant for the resulting
binary and not required for building in the base system. The install.sh
script has a MIT license, but it is also not relevant for us.

Regards, STefan