Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:49:57 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Replacement for SQUID (Was: A whole list of stacked topics) Message-ID: <3C18F855.2E22238E@mindspring.com> References: <20011212105559.19177.qmail@web21103.mail.yahoo.com> <3C17482C.3792DAA9@mindspring.com> <20011213115519.F3448@monorchid.lemis.com> <3C18472F.DD3A90D5@mindspring.com> <20011213165513.D3448@monorchid.lemis.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20011213082900.01b912d0@localhost>
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Brett Glass wrote: > > At 02:02 AM 12/13/2001, Terry Lambert wrote: > >When IBM acquired Whistle, they DEMANDED that we remove SQUID, which > >was planned to be in the next release of the software for the next > >generation product, as it infringed 5 IBM patents, and they did not > >want to grant license to use those patents, royalty free, by shipping > >a product with SQUID on it. > > With what did IBM replace it? I'm looking for good caching software > that's not GPLed. We (Bryan Mann) replaced it with the Apache proxy server. The intent was not redominantly caching, but enforcement of proxy authentication as a means of user identification for the purposes of implementing a web site blocking feature. We lost some caching functionality, in making this change. SQUID is good code, it just infringes a number of patents. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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