Re: Platform

From: Hubert Figuiere <hub figuiere net>
To: desktop-devel-list gnome org
Subject: Re: Platform
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 21:03:28 -0400

On 05/26/2009 08:48 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:

The initial Apple implementation of mDNS/DNS, which was Rendezvous
(later renamed to Bonjour) was licensed under APSL -- which is not a
Free Software license.

Not to remove any argument, but for the sake of accuracy, it should benoted that APSL 2.0 is Free Software, according to the FSF:

  http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/apsl.html

Albeit APSL 2.0 is not compatible with the GPL (like the Apache v2license isn't compatible with GPLv2), which is a problem when it comesto GNOME.

Hub

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