On Wednesday 14 September 2005 10:03, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 01:07:30AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > I just discovered that the ntp source is a nest of licensing problems. > > > > The arlib subdir isn't distributable. > > Neither is the entire libparse subdir, or anything else by Frank Kardel. > > > > I'm not actually sure it will build without these bits. > > > > So I guess NTP should be removed from Debian. It's not very > > maintained anyhow, having multiple RC bugs open for quite a while. > > What are you going to replace it with? AFAIK, ntp is the only package > we have in Debian which supports useful clock synchronization, which is > essential for a number of other services (e.g., Kerberos).
I've never tested openntpd, but it is the obvious replacement in case of legal problems with ntp and it has been released with sarge. > Obviously we can't ship non-distributable code, but I'm not going to > remove ntp from testing just because it appears at first blush to be > inconsistently licensed. The maintainers should have a chance to clear > up this question first. Agreed. -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
