[JdeBP]

The licensing stuff was simple: There wasn't a licence. Some people creatively misinterpreted M. Bernstein's page, explaining what one could do under the law in the U.S. as it stood even without a copyright licence, as a licence. But that was a misinterpretation.

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/law-licence-free-softwares.html

Daemontools ironically wasn't weird at all, as evidenced by the fact that over the past almost two decades the daemontools world got us changes to softwares, all of those do not daemonize options that have appeared in that time as well as things like removing mysql_safe and other Poor Man's Dæmon Supervisors, that made it a lot easier to use those softwares with other service managers.

* http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/mariadb-and-mysql.html#Promp...

Some of the things that people use instead of daemontools are not much less reliable. (-:

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/daemontools-family.html