Il giorno gio, 21/05/2009 alle 21.30 +0300, Stefan Kost ha scritto: > Bastien Nocera schrieb: > > On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 17:15 +0300, Stefan Kost wrote: > > > > <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 As I read this: Apple's implementation is under the Apache license, which isn't particularly good, *SO* Avahi itself has been rewritten using the LGPL, and offers much better integration with the GNU/Linux stack (for example, DBus support...). This means there're no compatibility problems with Avahi and other free (as in speech) software around. This I got by reading http://avahi.org/. To sum it up: the mDNS specification is there to implement, Apple released Bonjour with the Apache license, Avahi implements it using the LGPL. Maybe I'm missing something? Matteo
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