On Sat, Jan 17, 2026 at 08:16 Mailing Lists <mailing.list@kupper.li> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Based on Shaun Ren's GH OpenBSD code
> (https://github.com/shaunren/chrony) I have created a ports package/git
> for Chrony 4.8.
>
> There are a few questions that came up.
>
> Regarding Chrony's source code:
>
> First off, the author - Shaun Ren - is for me just a name on a Github
> profile, no email or anything else. On www.mail-archive.com there is a
> Shaun Ren with entries from almost ten years ago on the linux-kernel
> mailing list with a @linux.com address. I opened an issue on GH 10 days
> ago informing him/her that I did create the port and asked a) if it is
> ok and b) if yes, if Shaun would add the copyright to all the files that
> where modified.
>
> What are the rules regarding the copyright of code and contact data
> needed from a code owner? Shaun added a copyright to the file
> sys_openbsd.c dating back to 2021 but not to now other file modified.


The project's COPYING file declares the license of the project to be GPLv2:

<https://github.com/shaunren/chrony/blob/openbsd/COPYING>

While `sys_openbsd.c` has an added copyright, it didn't change or remove
the GPLv2 license comment in that file:

<https://github.com/shaunren/chrony/blob/openbsd/sys_openbsd.c>

I'm no lawyer, but that doesn't appear to change the license and
distributability.

Morgan