request for Legacy Approval of the NTP License

[Lawrence Rosen]

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

How often will we do this? Is anyone actually taking the time to read each
of these nearly-identical submissions to make sure that "and" has been
changed to "or" (or vice versa)? I'm not....

/Larry



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ernest Prabhakar [mailto:ernest.prabhakar at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 4:55 PM
> To: Harlan Stenn
> Cc: license-review at opensource.org
> Subject: Re: request for Legacy Approval of the NTP License
> 
> 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>
> > http://ntpforum.isc.org  - be a member!