[ntp:questions] 500ppm - is it too small?

nemo_outis abc at xyz.com
Mon Aug 17 22:59:47 UTC 2009


"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote in 
news:BKednVijh9zCTBTXnZ2dnUVZ_jqdnZ2d at giganews.com:

> E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists wrote:
>> nemo_outis wrote:
>>> PS  I too only use the software to synchronize my clocks.
>>>  However, while I am grateful for the years of effort
>>>    that ntp reflects, I am not blind to its warts.
>>>   And while the opinions of a strong personality may have
>>>    driven the creation of ntp, it seems those same
>>>    rigidly-held opinions may now be restricting its
>>>    further growth and development.
>> 
>> I don't see how, it is open source.
> 
> It is open source.  The reference implementation is tightly controlled 
> by Dave Mills!  The reference implementation, with allowances for the 
> idiosyncrasies of various operating systems and compilers, runs on a 
> broad spectrum of hardware and operating systems.
> 
> There is nothing to prevent you from modifying that implementation or 
> writing your own from scratch.  To get your modifications into the 
> distributed reference implementation, you would have to satisfy Dave 
> Mills that they were correct, were in fact an improvement, etc.
> 
> I believe that the reverence implementation is Copyrighted so there 
> could be restrictions on distributing modified versions.
> 
> <snip>


Use the source, Luke! (i.e., read the licence)  

The source is copyrighted and there *are* restrictions on (some types of) 
use/reuse - not especially onerous for some perhaps, but nonetheless 
there.

Regards,







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