request for Legacy Approval of the NTP License

[Ernest Prabhakar]

Hi Harlan at all,

I propose we approve this as a "variant" of the MIT license, as we did  
with the various BSDs...

-- Ernie P.

On Feb 26, 2008, at 11:39 AM, Harlan Stenn wrote:

> I'm requesting legacy approval for the NTP License:
>
> http://ntp.bkbits.net:8080/ntp-stable/html/copyright.html
>
> This license is widely used within its strong community.
>
> This license is redundant with other approved licenses (BSD/MIT).
>
> This license is the MIT licence (from many years ago), with a small
> change to remove the ambiguity with the word 'and' in the phrase
> "... and without fee".  (It took me *years* of effort to get this  
> small
> change - "s/and/with or/" in the license.)  After this change, the
> license was pretty much identical to the ISC license for BIND.
>
> Where do I ask that a Trac ticket be created for this request?
> -- 
> Harlan Stenn <stenn at ntp.org>
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