Relicense ntpd and ntpd_simple applets to ISC license

[Adam Tkac]

On 12/25/2014 11:24 PM, Isaac Dunham wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 08:43:21PM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>>
>> Basically it says that the original source is under BSD license
>> and all changes are under GPL. This is possibly legal, but surely is a mess
>> (whoever would want to disentangle it will need to discover the original).
>>
>> How about just respecting original authors' BSD license?
>> I'm not a license zealot.
>> You and me, as authors, still can re-license all our changes.

I though that requirement for all busybox contributions is GPL license. This was the reason why I licensed applet under GPLv2. If ISC license is acceptable for you, I'm also for it. Proposed patch is attached and after agreement, license can be copied to ntpd_simple.c...

Please note that I removed "portability layer" authors mentioned in OpenNTPd license because this portability layer code was never used by applet (everything was replaced by already existing libbb code).

> I prefer seeing the original license preserved in general, but if you
> take that course, I'd assume you will need to contact at least the 
> first three of the other Busybox contributors who modified ntpd:
> Miroslav Lichvar 
> Jean-Christophe Dubois 
> Paul Marks 

All of them are CC-ed. If you don't agree with ISC-style license for ntpd.c (and attached patch), please tell us...

Regards, Adam
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