cvsweb: add the files HISTORY and LICENSE

cvsweb: add the files HISTORY and LICENSE

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+CVSweb HISTORY
+==============
+This file documents the development and release history
+of the CVSweb CGI program.
+
+
+Repository overview
+-------------------
+Many CVS repositories existed during the development of CVSweb.
+Given that historical naming varied and followed no consistent
+scheme, the present file employs the following shorthands for the
+known historical repositories:
+
+ 1. FENNER   (???? - 1996)
+ 2. WWW      (1996 - 2000)
+ 3. ZELLER   (???? - 2001)
+ 4. KNU/SCOP (2000 - 2007)
+ 5. SCHWARZE (2019 - ????)
+
+The present HISTORY file first appeared in the SCHWARZE repository
+on March 20, 2019.
+
+
+Revision number overview
+------------------------
+For the file cvsweb.cgi in the SCHWARZE repository, here is an
+overview of revision numbers.  See the text below for details.
+
+ * 1.1 to 1.45:
+   main line of development in the WWW repository
+ * 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.37:
+   vendor import branch of KNU/SCOP into the WWW repository
+ * 1.45.2.46 to 1.45.2.91:
+   merges from KNU/SCOP into the WWW repository
+ * 1.45.2.92 and 1.45.2.93:
+   minor development continuing in WWW after the end of KNU/SCOP
+
+ * 2.1 and following:
+   reserved for the ZELLER repository; no revisions yet
+
+ * 3.1 to 3.119:
+   main line of development in the KNU/SCOP repository
+   up to the FreeBSD-CVSweb 2.0.5 release
+ * 3.119.2.1 to 3.119.2.9:
+   stable branch in the KNU/SCOP repository
+   up to the FreeBSD-CVSweb 2.0.6 release
+ * 3.120 to 3.297:
+   main line of development in the KNU/SCOP repository
+   up to the FreeBSD-CVSweb 3.0.6 release
+ * 3.298 and 3.299:
+   merge of post-KNU/SCOP development from WWW into SCHWARZE
+
+ * 4.1 and following:
+   main line of development in the SCHWARZE repository
+   starting on March 20, 2019
+
+
+Symbolic revision names
+-----------------------
+The SCHWARZE repository contains the following symbolic revision
+names (tags).  They mostly follow the format used in the WWW and
+KNU/SCOP repositories, but have been unified in some minor ways.
+
+ * FreeBSD-cvsweb-2_0_<x>:
+   official CVSweb version 2 and -stable (2.0.6) releases from KNU/SCOP
+ * FreeBSD-cvsweb-2_9_<x>-beta:
+   the three CVSweb version 3 beta releases from KNU/SCOP
+ * FreeBSD-cvsweb-3_0_<x>:
+   official CVSweb version 3 releases from KNU/SCOP
+
+ * CVSWEB_v1_<x>_1_<y>:
+   vendor import branch of KNU/SCOP into the WWW repository
+   <x> is the revision number in the ZELLER repository,
+   corresponding to 2.<x> revisions in SCHWARZE which do not yet exist
+   <y> is the revision number in the KNU/SCOP repository
+   corresponding to 3.<y> revisions in the SCHWARZE repository
+ * CVSWEB_v2_0_<x>:
+   vendor import branch of KNU/SCOP into the WWW repository
+   for the CVSweb version 2 and -stable (2.0.6) releases
+ * CVSWEB_v3_0_6:
+   vendor import branch of KNU/SCOP into the WWW repository
+   for the 3.0.6 release; earlier CVSweb version 3 releases
+   were never imported into the WWW repository
+
+
+
+HISTORY DETAILS
+===============
+
+First phase (FENNER): Bill Fenner's CVSweb (??? - 1996)
+-------------------------------------------------------
+The CVSweb program was originally developed
+by Bill Fenner <fenner@FreeBSD.org>.
+So far, it is unknown whether he used a version control system
+before September 28, 1996, and no version could so far be found
+older than that date.
+
+
+Second phase (WWW): FreeBSD-www repository (1996 - 2000)
+--------------------------------------------------------
+On September 28, 1996, John Fieber <jfieber@FreeBSD.org> imported
+CVSweb into the larger FreeBSD-www CVS repository.  Development
+continued in this WWW repository with contributions from various
+authors until July 18, 2000.
+
+The complete version history of this phase is preserved.
+The revision numbers agree between the WWW and SCHWARE repositories
+going from cvsweb.cgi rev. 1.1 to rev. 1.45.
+Ingo Schwarze obtained copies of this part of the history
+with the help of Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org>
+and Hiroki SATO <hrs@FreeBSD.org> in March 2019.
+
+The WWW repository eventually also contained copies of the files
+cvsweb.conf, cvsweb.conf-freebsd, cvsweb.conf-netbsd, cvsweb.conf-openbsd,
+and cvsweb.css, but all these files only appeared here as imported
+versions of the files from the KNU/SCOP repository.  For that reason,
+the version history of these files in the WWW repository has no
+independent significance and is not included in the SCHWARZE
+repository.  Consequently, the only file in the SCHWARZE repository
+having revisions lower than 3.1 is cvsweb.cgi.
+
+
+Third phase (ZELLER): Henner Zeller's CVSweb (??? - 2001)
+---------------------------------------------------------
+At an unknown point in time, Henner Zeller forked the code of either
+the FENNER repository or more likely the WWW repository and set up
+his own, private CVS repository.  In addition to Henner Zeller
+himself, Henrik Nordström contributed significantly to the
+development in this repository.
+
+No definite commit date is known before July 27, 2000, but the
+repository was almost certainly begun much earlier because it already
+contained 93 revisions of cvsweb.cgi at that point in time.  The
+last definitely known commit date to the ZELLER repository is July
+24, 2001.  So far, no copy of the repository itself could be found;
+all information given here is derived from commit messages in the
+KNU/SCOP repository.
+
+In the SCHWARZE repository, revision numbers of the form 2.* are
+reserved for the ZELLER repository, in case a copy of that repository
+should ever be found.
+   
+
+Fourth phase (KNU/SCOP): FreeBSD-cvsweb repository (2000 - 2007)
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+On July 19, 2000, Akinori MUSHA <knu@FreeBSD.org> forked the code
+of the ZELLER repository and set up his own, private CVS repository.
+By way of repository copy, his complete repository was later copied
+into the larger FreeBSD-projects repository, using the directory
+/projects/cvsweb/.
+In an email sent to Ingo Schwarze on March 20, 2019, Akinori MUSHA
+confirmed that he found his local CVS repository on his main server
+and that it looks like the copy of the KNU/SCOP repository that
+Ingo Schwarze obtained from the /projects/cvsweb/ directory on the
+FreeBSD CVS server with the help of Wolfram Schneider and Hiroki
+SATO does indeed contain the complete revision history of his
+original repository.
+
+Development in this KNU/SCOP repository was at first predominatly
+moved forward by Akinori MUSHA, merging improvements from the ZELLER
+repository on many occasions and also making many improvements of
+his own, until he finally released FreeBSD-cvsweb 2.0.0 from this
+repository on November 7, 2001.  He continued development until he
+released FreeBSD-cvsweb 2.0.3 on May 22, 2002.  After that, Ville
+Skyttä joined him, and they continued development together until
+the release of FreeBSD-CVSweb 2.0.5 on July 22, 2002.  The original
+revision numbers leading up to the 2.0.5 release in the KNU/SCOP
+repository were 1.1 to 1.119.  In the SCHWARZE repository, they
+were changed to 3.1 to 3.119 to avoid clashes with the WWW repository.
+
+Because FreeBSD kept using CVSweb on the official website at the
+time, the code from the KNU/SCOP repository was occasionally merged
+back to the WWW repository, first on August 14, 2000 and last on
+March 17, 2007.  The revision numbers of this vendor import branch
+agree between the WWW and SCHWARZE repositories, going from 1.1.1.1
+to 1.1.1.37.  In the WWW repository, this vendor branch was repeatedly
+merged into the trunk, with revision numbers from 1.46 to 1.91,
+followed by two additional improvements in revisions 1.92 and 1.93.
+In the SCHWARZE repository, the revision numbers of these merges
+were changed to 1.45.2.46 to 1.45.2.93 because they are not part
+of the main line of development which continues with revision 3.1
+(i.e. the KNU/SCOP repository) after WWW revision 1.45.  Because
+WWW revisons 1.92 and 1.93 (= SCHWARZE revisions 1.45.2.92 and
+1.45.2.93) remain relevant but were never merged back to the KNU/SCOP
+repository, both were merged to the KNU/SCOP trunk in the SCHWARZE
+repository as revisions 3.298 and 3.299.
+
+After 2.0.5, development continued on two branches.  The stable
+branch in the KNU/SCOP repository led to the release of
+FreeBSD-cvsweb-2_0_6 on September 26, 2002.  Three more improvements
+followed until development ceased on this branch on February 17,
+2004.  The original revision numbers of the stable branch in the
+KNU/SCOP repository were 1.119.2.1 to 1.119.2.9.  In the SCHWARZE
+repository, they were changed to 3.119.2.1 to 3.119.2.9 to avoid
+confusion with the WWW repository.
+
+The other post-2.0.5 branch in the KNU/SCOP repository was the trunk
+and led to the release of FreeBSD-cvsweb-2_9_1-beta on October 5,
+2003, FreeBSD-cvsweb-3_0_0 on February 26, 2004, and the final
+FreeBSD-cvsweb-3_0_6 on September 25, 2005, followed by two more
+bugfixes before development ceased in the KNU/SCOP repository on
+December 3, 2005.  The original revision numbers of the trunk in the
+KNU/SCOP repository were 1.120 to 1.297.  In the SCHWARZE repository,
+they were changed to 3.120 to 3.297 to avoid confusion with the WWW
+repository.
+
+
+Fifth phase (SCHWARZE): CVSweb on bsd.lv (2019 - ????)
+------------------------------------------------------
+On March 20, 2019, Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> set up a
+CVSweb CVS repository on the bsd.lv server, preserving as much of
+the history as could be found.  Going forward with development,
+revision numbers starting with 4.1 will be used for all files.
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+$Id: LICENSE,v 4.1 2019/03/20 17:24:23 schwarze Exp $
+
+All files contained in the CVSweb repository and distribution
+are protected by the Copyright of the following developers:
+
+Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998 Bill Fenner <fenner@FreeBSD.org>
+Copyright (c) 1996 John Fieber <jfieber@FreeBSD.org>
+Copyright (c) 1997,1998,1999,2000,2001 Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org>
+Copyright (c) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 Henner Zeller <zeller@think.de>
+Copyright (c) 1999, 2000, 2001 Henrik Nordstrom <hno@hem.passagen.se>
+Copyright (c) 2000, 2001, 2002 Akinori MUSHA <knu@FreeBSD.org>
+Copyright (c) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Ville Skytta <scop@FreeBSD.org>
+Copyright (c) 2002 Ken Coar <coar@Apache.Org>
+Copyright (c) 2002 Dick Balaska <dick@buckosoft.com>
+Copyright (c) 2002 Jens-Uwe Mager <jum@helios.de>
+Copyright (c) 2002 Vassilii Khachaturov <vassilii@tarunz.org>
+All rights reserved.
+
+See the individual files for information about who contributed
+to which file during which years.
+
+
+The CVSweb distribution as a whole is distributed by its developers
+under the following license:
+
+Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+are met:
+1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
+   notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
+   notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
+   documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
+
+THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
+ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
+IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
+ARE DISCLAIMED.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
+FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
+DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
+OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
+HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
+LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
+OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
+SUCH DAMAGE.
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