In the service of Aunt Tillie -- Zero-configuration networking
Chris Ricker
kaboom at gatech.edu
Wed Mar 3 02:07:04 UTC 2004
On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> I'm on the phone with Cheshire now. We're looking at the patent. He
> doesn't believe that it either covers the mDNS technique or is enforceable,
> and will write a more detailed response to this list.
It doesn't cover mDNS, it covers some of the link-local addressing. MS has
said they'll grant royalty-free licenses provided there's reciprocity
(though that obviously has major license choice implications for any code
written to implement zeroconf on Linux).
later,
chris
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