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lemmy - Link to source

Ubuntu is swapping its time sync tool for a Rust-based version - OMG! Ubuntu

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.

Ubuntu is swapping its time sync tool for a Rust-based version - OMG! Ubuntu

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
Joey Sneddon (OMG! Ubuntu)
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lemmy - Link to source

Helix 🧬

I also wondered why this is a big news. Usually those tools are tried and tested over years of development and only run once a day or boot or even less. Don't know if it has that much of an impact.

It's cool and all, kudos to the devs, but idk why it's posted here and an article is written about it.

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lemmy - Link to source

huey_m

This was my understanding, but I really am not in the loop enough to say it with certainty, so appreciate the confirmation. I agree, I think we're seeing from contributions made by people like Valve that there's real value in requiring derivative work to give back to the community it drew from. But again, I'm really not super well informed. I just tend to pick GNU options when available.
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piefed - Link to source

verdare

Permissive licenses also allow corporations to build off of open source software without giving anything back to public. I don’t see why they’re entitled to profit off the free labor of a community they don’t contribute back to.
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friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

Nanook

@InFerNo @huey_m I understand where you are coming from but I do feel if someone contributes their work pro bono they should have the right to determine how it is used, and if they want to allow derivatives without the same open source requirements, well, their contribution, their right.
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friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

Nanook

@SocialistVibes01 Kind of irrelevant since Ubuntu's default time sync is not ntpd but systemd-timesync, so notice they are replacing ntpd with a version that is memory safe though I could think of many programs that could benefit from rust far more than ntpd.

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