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The full and complete NTP Reference Implementation from the Network Time Protocol Project at Network Time Foundation.
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License mismatch #17

Closed 4erepaxen closed 7 months ago

4erepaxen commented 7 months ago

While looking at the licenses of the files, I noticed that the file is licensed GPLv3+. (/sntp/libopts/m4/libopts.m4) Therefore, when building with static linking, this license is transferred to the entire package, as far as I understand. Looking through the library versions for the same file, I didn't find this license. If you have the opportunity, could you add an exception.(https://spdx.org/licenses/Autoconf-Exception-macro.html) or explicitly indicate this nuance.

hart-NTP commented 7 months ago

see sntp/libopts/README:

   THIS TARBALL IS NOT A FULL DISTRIBUTION.

The contents of this tarball is designed to be incorporated into software packages that utilize the AutoOpts option automation package and are intended to be installed on systems that may not have libopts installed. It is redistributable under the terms of either the LGPL (see COPYING.lgpl) or under the terms of the advertising clause free BSD license (see COPYING.mbsd).

Usage Instructions for autoconf/automake/libtoolized projects:

  1. Install the unrolled tarball into your package source tree, copying ``libopts.m4'' to your autoconf macro directory. [...]

If you still think the mention of GPLv3 in libopts.m4 is a problem, I think the best place to address that is with its author Bruce Korb directly.

4erepaxen commented 7 months ago

In any case, I appreciate the quick response to my question.

4erepaxen commented 7 months ago

I re-read the license and the reference you gave. I think you're right, and this can be considered part of section seven of the GPLv3 license.(Additional Terms)