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Licensing
by JohnFlux on Thursday 28/Apr/2005, @11:58

Licensing..

I know this isn't slashdot and people are a bit more mature, but just incase anyone wants to attack debian for being pedantic about not liking the apple license I want to point why debian etc doesn't like it.

The license basically says that if you sue apple for anything then your rights to any of its software is revoked.

This would mean that any company that sues apple over anything (and remember apple is mostly a hardware company) then that company would have have problems using both gnome and kde.

JohnFlux

p.s. I think Apple is being a real dick about this. Just to indicate my bias.
p.p.s. I helped jacubs add dns-sd to kbattleship so send some of the women and fame to me too.

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Re: Licensing
by Kevin Krammer on Thursday 28/Apr/2005, @14:28

If I understood correctly this only applies to the licence of the daemon, so the client lib which KDE uses is considered free by Debian as well.

And having support built in but not having the daemon running wouldn't result in any harm, only the service will remain useless.

But I guess nobody will bother to write a compatible replacement daemon in case this new implementations works good enough.

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Re: Licensing
by stumbles on Thursday 28/Apr/2005, @15:21

Let's see. Wibble on over to the link. Opps don't have an account. Let's see, register. Hmmm, they want email, name and address and to top it off they want my birthday? Now I realize I could put in false information but that is not my nature.

Disappointing it is Apples version would be chosen over howl. Instead of working with the howl developers to over come some "deficiencies".

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Re: Licensing
by Jakub Stachowski on Friday 29/Apr/2005, @00:39

At first, KDE's Zeroconf code was based on Howl but got rewritten. Howl internally uses forked old version of Apple's code, so 'overcoming deficiencies' would be just recreating work that is already done in mDNSResponder. What for? If you have problem with registration then fine, download from mirror (check Gentoo ebuild for addresses).

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Re: Licensing
by stumbles on Friday 29/Apr/2005, @04:23

Well thanks for the info, I did not know that about howl.

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