Re: [chrony-users] Chronyd client - GPLv2

[Bill Unruh <unruh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For your own personal use (or for business use only within the one business), no.
If you decide to release it for the public or for other's use, then probabky
yes, although you do not give enough information here to really decide. For
example if your privage client is a separate program, then that separate
program would have to be released under GPL2 if it uses, or is derivative of,
chrony. If it is a part of your other application, then probably yes, you need
to release the whole thing under GPL.
Read the GPL, or get a lawyer versed in copyright law as applied to software
to read the GPL and to advise you.



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On Mon, 16 Oct 2017, Steve Holmgren wrote:

> I want to write a private chronyd client - connecting via UDP - to retrieve 
> est error and max error values.  If I add this client as a thread to my main 
> application must I release all of my application source under GPLv2?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
>
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