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Re: "Jaguar" additions
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Richard Frith-Macdonald |
Subject: |
Re: "Jaguar" additions |
Date: |
Tue, 20 Aug 2002 07:52:47 +0100 |
On Tuesday, August 20, 2002, at 06:41 AM, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
Well we shouldn't look at this code, particularly anyone interested
in writing those classes. Particularly since it's an open standard,
we could have the ability to drive it's adoption on GNU/Linux and
other Free OSs. That would be cool.
True, since it's an open standard, I guess it's not really necessary
to look at existing source code. There's even a draft RFC at
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-zeroconf-reqts-10.txt .
(There are more documents and information at www.zeroconf.org.)
The license on the code may be incompatible with LGPL, so if we took
the knowledge
from looking at that source and built it into GNUstep we could get in
trouble with
Apple insisting that we release GNUstep under their license.
Actually copyright is a bigger issue I guess ... GNU projects have to
have copyright
assigned to the Free Software Foundation (simplifies legal matters
defending copyleft
infringement if the entirety of the copyright for a project is owned by
the FSF) and
any code we could be accused of copying from elsewhere would be a
problem.
Re: "Jaguar" additions, David Ayers, 2002/08/20
Re: "Jaguar" additions, BALATON Zoltan, 2002/08/27