e...@thyrsus.com said: > I've thought about this some more, and now I am in doubt that the general > principle (don't use other peoples' resources without their permission) > applies here. I think we need to apply what tort law would call a > reasonable-person test.
> Some kinds of public-facing offer of a resource clearly constitute an > implied invitation to download it as needed. Consider, for example, a web > page. I think you are just plain wrong. The invitation to download a web page has some expectations of reasonable use. What's reasonable for an individual trying to answer a question using google and following links is no longer reasonable if it gets automated so that every box running ntp tries to download a file on the same day. I'm not a lawyer etc. Consider a public drinking fountain. That's not an invitation to fill up your tanker truck to water your lawn. Besides, as Kurt Roeckx has pointed out, there is a much much better way. Just use the copy that gets distributed by the time zone package. It's already there on Debian and Ubuntu and Raspberian. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org http://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
