Re: Moving to bonjour over howl



On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 01:10 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="JP Rosevear">
> 
> > Is there any reason not to prefer bonjour over howl now?  Apple has
> > re-licensed the client portions of the library under BSD like howl and
> > almost certainly bonjour will be better tested.
> 
> That happened a while ago. Unfortunately, the daemon is still APSL2, so we
> should not be recommending that our distributors ship it by supporting it.

We already are with howl since it uses the same daemon.

> In the mean time, we have a wonderful solution in Avahi (which the Apple
> people are taking an interest in, too).

Well sure, I'd like to see about this too now I'm a little more aware,
but i had no idea it was a done/blessed deal.

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>
Novell, Inc.




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