From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Dec 13 10:49:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43AB937B405 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:49:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0215.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.215] helo=mindspring.com) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16EavY-0006OU-00; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:49:52 -0800 Message-ID: <3C18F855.2E22238E@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:49:57 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Glass Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Replacement for SQUID (Was: A whole list of stacked topics) 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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