Re: Problems with ntp

[Matthijs Mohlmann <matthijs@cacholong.nl>]

George Danchev wrote:
> 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.
I use openntpd and that works better then ntp IMHO.

> > 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.

Also agreed.

Regards,

Matthijs Mohlmann