[ntpwg] [dhcwg] NTP option: IP address and/or FQDN

Danny Mayer mayer at ntp.isc.org
Tue Dec 11 17:45:47 UTC 2007


Chuck Anderson wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 08:00:19AM -0800, TS Glassey wrote:
>> Again - Anthony the reason people can misuse NTP en-masse is because of the 
>> licensing model. If the license didn't let those people abuse NTP then they 
>> wouldn't do it...
> 
> Bull.  People will abuse things even if they aren't "allowed" to by 
> some license agreement.  Just look at all the vendors out there who 
> are violating the terms of the GPL license.  Restrictions on use are 
> evil and not compatible with open source software.

Why are we even discussing licensing here? This has nothing whatsoever
to do with licensing. This is a red herring.

Danny


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