request for Legacy Approval of the NTP License

[Harlan Stenn]

Hi Ernie (and others)

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

Whatever works.

I'm asking for this (and in the other message, for approval of ISC's
license) because I want the NTP Project to participate in the upcoming
Google SOC, and I need to be able to show the Google folks we have an
approved license.

Thanks...

H
--
> 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>
> > http://ntpforum.isc.org  - be a member!