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From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin at mavetju.org>
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Subject: Re: [H-GEN] what was precursor to Apache?
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On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 03:26:50PM +1000, Paul Gearon wrote:
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> On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Frank Brand wrote:
> 
> > Yes if you go to Netcraft's web survey you will see that Apache's rise has
> > mirrored NCSA's demise. In August, 1995 NCSA had around 50% of the market
> > but now has a negligible proportion. I think Netscape used to sell one too
> > didn't they.
> 
> Yup.  At about the same time there was also WN.  I mention this not
> because it was the "most popular", but at the time I believe it was the
> most popular GPLed web server.  Obviously, Apache overtook it in this
> regard.

If it was GPLed, then Apache (which was build on top of the NCSA
httpd) would also be. But since Apache isn't[1], the NCSA httpd wasn't
neither. Let's call it "the most popular open source web server" :-)

http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/COPYRIGHT.html

Edwin

[1] BSD style license

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