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The following copyright notice applies to all files collectively called the Network Time Protocol Version 4 Distribution. Unless specifically declared otherwise in an individual file, this entire notice applies as if the text was explicitly included in the file.

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Content starting in 2011 from Harlan Stenn, Juergen Perlinger, Dave Hart, Danny Mayer, Martin Burnicki, and possibly others is:

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The following individuals contributed in part to the Network Time Protocol Distribution Version 4 and are acknowledged as authors of this work.

  1. Takao Abe <[email protected]> Clock driver for JJY receivers
  2. Mark Andrews <[email protected]> Leitch atomic clock controller
  3. Bernd Altmeier <[email protected]> hopf Elektronik serial line and PCI-bus devices
  4. Viraj Bais <[email protected]> and Clayton Kirkwood <[email protected]> port to WindowsNT 3.5
  5. Michael Barone <michael,[email protected]> GPSVME fixes
  6. Karl Berry <[email protected]> syslog to file option
  7. Greg Brackley <[email protected]> Major rework of WINNT port. Clean up recvbuf and iosignal code into separate modules.
  8. Marc Brett <[email protected]> Magnavox GPS clock driver
  9. Piete Brooks <[email protected]> MSF clock driver, Trimble PARSE support
  10. Nelson B Bolyard <[email protected]> update and complete broadcast and crypto features in sntp
  11. Jean-Francois Boudreault <[email protected]> IPv6 support
  12. Reg Clemens <[email protected]> Oncore driver (Current maintainer)
  13. Steve Clift <[email protected]> OMEGA clock driver
  14. Casey Crellin <[email protected]> vxWorks (Tornado) port and help with target configuration
  15. Philippe De Muyter <[email protected]> Wharton reference clock driver, sysV68 and AIX modifications.
  16. Sven Dietrich <[email protected]> Palisade reference clock driver, NT adj. residuals, integrated Greg's Winnt port.
  17. John A. Dundas III <[email protected]> Apple A/UX port
  18. Torsten Duwe <[email protected]> Linux port
  19. Dennis Ferguson <[email protected]> foundation code for NTP Version 2 as specified in RFC-1119
  20. John Hay <[email protected]> IPv6 support and testing
  21. Dave Hart <[email protected]> General maintenance, IPv6 cleanup, Windows PPSAPI
  22. Claas Hilbrecht <[email protected]> NeoClock4X clock driver
  23. Glenn Hollinger <[email protected]> GOES clock driver
  24. Mike Iglesias <[email protected]> DEC Alpha port
  25. Jim Jagielski <[email protected]> A/UX port
  26. Jeff Johnson <[email protected]> massive prototyping overhaul
  27. Hans Lambermont <[email protected]> or <[email protected]> ntpsweep
  28. Poul-Henning Kamp <[email protected]> Oncore driver (Original author)
  29. Frank Kardel <kardel (at) ntp (dot) org> PARSE <GENERIC> (driver 14 reference clocks), STREAMS modules for PARSE, support scripts, syslog cleanup, dynamic interface handling
  30. Johannes Maximilian Kuehn <[email protected]> Rewrote sntp to comply with NTPv4 specification, ntpq saveconfig
  31. William L. Jones <[email protected]> RS/6000 AIX modifications, HPUX modifications
  32. Dave Katz <[email protected]> RS/6000 AIX port
  33. Craig Leres <[email protected]> 4.4BSD port, ppsclock, Magnavox GPS clock driver
  34. George Lindholm <[email protected]> SunOS 5.1 port
  35. Louis A. Mamakos <[email protected]> MD5-based authentication
  36. Lars H. Mathiesen <[email protected]> adaptation of foundation code for Version 3 as specified in RFC-1305
  37. Danny Mayer <[email protected]>Network I/O, Windows Port, Code Maintenance
  38. David L. Mills <[email protected]> Version 4 foundation, precision kernel; clock drivers: 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 11, 13, 18, 19, 22, 36
  39. Wolfgang Moeller <[email protected]> VMS port
  40. Jeffrey Mogul <[email protected]> ntptrace utility
  41. Tom Moore <[email protected]> i386 svr4 port
  42. Kamal A Mostafa <[email protected]> SCO OpenServer port
  43. Derek Mulcahy <[email protected]> and Damon Hart-Davis <[email protected]> ARCRON MSF clock driver
  44. Rob Neal <[email protected]> Bancomm refclock and config/parse code maintenance
  45. Rainer Pruy <[email protected]> monitoring/trap scripts, statistics file handling
  46. Dirce Richards <[email protected]> Digital UNIX V4.0 port
  47. Wilfredo Sánchez <[email protected]> added support for NetInfo
  48. Nick Sayer <[email protected]> SunOS streams modules
  49. Jack Sasportas <[email protected]> Saved a Lot of space on the stuff in the html/pic/ subdirectory
  50. Ray Schnitzler <[email protected]> Unixware1 port
  51. Michael Shields <[email protected]> USNO clock driver
  52. Jeff Steinman <[email protected]> Datum PTS clock driver
  53. Harlan Stenn <[email protected]> GNU automake/autoconfigure makeover, various other bits (see the ChangeLog)
  54. Kenneth Stone <[email protected]> HP-UX port
  55. Ajit Thyagarajan <[email protected]>IP multicast/anycast support
  56. Tomoaki TSURUOKA <[email protected]>TRAK clock driver
  57. Brian Utterback <[email protected]> General codebase, Solaris issues
  58. Loganaden Velvindron <[email protected]> Sandboxing (libseccomp) support
  59. Paul A Vixie <[email protected]> TrueTime GPS driver, generic TrueTime clock driver
  60. Ulrich Windl <[email protected]> corrected and validated HTML documents according to the HTML DTD