Clarification of the ntpd applet license

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Mon Dec 8 15:41:45 UTC 2014


On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Adam Tkac <vonsch at gmail.com> wrote:
> Henning Brauer, author of the openntpd (ntpd.c applet is based on it), asked
> me to improve license and copyright statement of the ntpd.c applet and
> explicitly mention openntpd license&copyright. Proposed patch is attached,
> can you please include it? Thanks it advance.

Copyright notice there is already a mess (both GPL and BSD ... that's wrong).

With your patch, it adds another BSD clause. Also, ntpd_simple.c
also needs fixing, right?

Please submit a patch which replaces existing notice with a consistent one.


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