| William H. Magill on 19 Oct 2003 14:39:03 -0400 |
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On Sunday, October 19, 2003, at 02:05 PM, Jeff Abrahamson wrote: On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 01:30:05PM -0400, William H. Magill wrote:I was told that wget got into some kind of patent/copyright problems... That's what I was looking for. Trying to find out why wget has been replaced by curl. I was told that OS X and Darwin both included wget and then replaced them with curl. (Neither is included in FreeBSD from what I can tell. Curl does appear to be part of the NetBSD distribution, but not wget.) Maybe it is just the fact that Curl uses the MIT license, while wget uses the GNU license. I see that wget is still in debian, and has a home page at http://wget.sunsite.dk/ according to /usr/share/doc/wget/README.gz. It's available for download from the FSF at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget/.
A new release of curl was 15 August 2003. http://curl.haxx.se/ Looking at the comparison chart between curl and snarf/wget/pavuk/fget/fetch, the answer may be simply -- development stopped on the others and continued on curl. http://curl.haxx.se/docs/comparison-table.html T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # Beige G3 - Rev A motherboard - 768 Meg # Flat-panel iMac (2.1) 800MHz - Super Drive - 768 Meg # PWS433a [Alpha 21164 Rev 7.2 (EV56)- 64 Meg]- Tru64 5.1a magill@mcgillsociety.org magill@acm.org magill@mac.com ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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