Re: Platform

[Lennart Poettering <mztabzr 0pointer de>]

On Tue, 26.05.09 21:03, Hubert Figuiere (hub figuiere net) wrote:

>
> 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 be  
> noted 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 v2  
> license isn't compatible with GPLv2), which is a problem when it comes  
> to GNOME.

Hmm, Bonjour was licensed under the original APSL license when it was
released.  Also I think the Debian folks still don't consider it
DFSG-free...

But anyway, I guess it doesn't matter anymore.

Lennart

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