[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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