[ntp:hackers] Standardizing NTP...

todd glassey todd.glassey at worldnet.att.net
Tue Jun 14 08:22:07 PDT 2005


Terje -
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Terje Mathisen" <terje.mathisen at hda.hydro.com>
To: <brian.utterback at sun.com>
Cc: <hackers at ntp.isc.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 7:49 AM
Subject: Re: [ntp:hackers] Standardizing NTP...


> brian.utterback at sun.com wrote:
> > Having just been involved with some issues regarding the NTP license due
> > to the OpenSolaris project, I am curious. On what basis do you make the
> > claim that the source code cannot be sold? I though that the dispute
> > over OpenBSD in May 2003 cleared up that the intent of the license is
> > that the permission is given without fee, not that the source code
> > cannot be given for a fee.
>
> I have no actual knowledge of whatever kind of license covers the ntpd
> source code, I just assumed that Todd couldn't make a legal living out
> of selling source code that someone else (say Ulrich, Danny or Dave)
> have written and (C) copyrighted, unless they allow him to do so.

Actually this statement is critically important since it effects each copy
of NTP shipped with existing OS's one would think.

Todd

>
> I probably shouldn't have mentioned this point, since it was unrelated
> to the rest of my msg.
>
> Terje
>
> -- 
> - <Terje.Mathisen at hda.hydro.com>
> "almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching"
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