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Licence is MIT / Apache, of course.

EDIT: of course the relicensing is the problem here. Alas we're in an all-time low interest in Free and Open Source politics, ideologies, and organization so the Big Evil Corpos continue to do their thing, one cog per time.

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[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The latest version of NTP is 15 years old, and implementations are expected to be compliant. There is no risk of embrace/extend/extinguish from licensing here.

Open standards are better than copy-left licenses, IMO.

[–] SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml 1 points 27 minutes ago

The money influences the standards and look at which licences the big pockets are pushing. Sometimes I can't stand the naivety.