Re: Platform

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

Bastien Nocera schrieb:
> On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 17:15 +0300, Stefan Kost wrote:
>> Bastien Nocera schrieb:
>>> On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 22:39 +0300, Stefan Kost wrote:
>>>   
>>>> Shaun McCance schrieb:
>>>>     
>>> <snip>
>>>   
>>>>> Avahi -- Service discovery.  This is used in quite a few
>>>>> places.  I know some people in the past had talked about
>>>>> having a simple wrapper in GLib.  How much do we push it?
>>>>>
>>>>>       
>>>> Now that apple has closed the whole bonjour stack,
>>>>     
>>> Huh? Bonjour (or Rendezvous as it used to be called) was BSD licensed,
>>> but it doesn't matter to us as we have our own stack in Avahi.
>>>
>>> Citation needed here.
>>>   
>> See my previous email.
> 
> The Wikipedia article? There's nothing there saying Apple closed the
> Bonjour stack.
> 
> <snip>
>>> You might be confusing mDNS and service discovery with the protocols
>>> implemented on top of it. We want to use both UPNP and mDNS for
>>> interoperability purposes, but I don't see the point in re-coding mDNS
>>> applications to use UPNP instead
>> I just pointed to the legal situation. I know that those are two
>> different things and idealy we support them both as needed.
> 
> A trademark problem? Why is that an issue to us what Apple calls their
> mDNS stack?
> 
> I still don't understand what you're worried about...
> 
this is from lennarts blog:
http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/bonjour-apache-license.html
would be good if avahi developers could comment here.

Stefan