"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber...@comcast.net> wrote in news:bkednvijh9zctbtxnz2dnuvz_jqdn...@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, _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions