acapd | License changed from GPLv2 to MIT on 15th Jan

acapd is a C++ library. acapd has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Permissive License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

(license changed from gplv2 to mit on 15th jan 2014.). (this readme written 7th jan, 2014). this is work that i did about a decade ago. as such, it’s littered with an interesting combination of archeology (it’s got its own shared/weak pointer implementation, because boost’s either wasn’t up to it at the time, or else i didn’t know it was), and poor design (spawning threads for every command?? what was i thinking?). possibly the worst part of it is that the bootstrap process is so awful. i’d never consider running without an external configuration file now, but at the time, i thought that a configuration server ought to store its own configuration. an acap server, by the way, is a configuration server. we’d probably call it a nosql cloud-enabled mobile-centric database now, but back in 1997, it was a configuration server. email clients - because there were no other clients worth speaking of - would connect to them to fetch their configuration. acap died a death of a thousand people who could’t be bothered implementing it for a number of reasons. firstly, it’s murderously hard to implement. just reading the source code while i made it compile on a