Re:Nweb: a tiny, safe web server (static pages only)
by dfc on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @03:16AM
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The page you linked to was last updated 11+ years ago. Notice the discussion of qmail|ucspi|djbdns-installer packages? They are not around anymore, you can install qmail/ucspi/daemontools etc. There is even djbdns and the debian tweaked + community patches version known as dbndns. Yes djb and debian devs are quite opinionated, but I do not think that is the reason that publicfile is not in debian despite the fact that so many other djb packages are.
I think the reason is low demand largely due to the fact that gnome-desktop depends on gnome-user-share (AKA: apache).
DJB appears to have changed the license to public domain, but at some point in the past there was a license that prohibited distribution of binaries from modified source. There's still the request that the paths not be changed to comply with the FHS.
DJB has strong opinions about the construction and distribution of software. So do quite a lot of debian people. These views are incompatible.