Canonical wants ntpd-rs, a Rust rewrite of NTP (Network Time Protocol), to become Ubuntu's default time sync client. To help get there, Canonical has

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.

  • AppleMango@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    While it does seem that way initially, strict copyleft licences can often do more harm than good. Projects need companies to use their software so that it becomes popular and get funding. There’s a reason why there’s barely any AGPL (or adjacent) licenced projects compared to GPL or MIT.