Re: Platform

[Lennart Poettering <mztabzr 0pointer de>]

On Thu, 21.05.09 21:30, Stefan Kost (ensonic hora-obscura de) wrote:

> 
> 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.

This blog posting of mine refers to the Bonjour software. Not an
abstract technology.

The license of Bonjour (the software) does not matter to us at
all. Since we have an independant implementation called "Avahi" which
shares no code with Bonjour (the software).

The license of Bonjour (the trademark) does not matter to us at all
either since we don't use that for anything.

All that should matter to us are mDNS/DNS-SD (the technology) and
Avahi (the software) both of which are open and free.

Lennart

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