Danny Mayer wrote: > Richard B. Gilbert wrote: >> 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 reference implementation is Copyrighted so there >> could be restrictions on distributing modified versions. > > No, the license makes no limitations on distribution of modified > versions. Where did you see that? >
I wrote "could be" not "are". _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
