In the service of Aunt Tillie -- Zero-configuration networking

[Eric S. Raymond]

Chris Ricker <kaboom at gatech.edu>:
> 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).

I'll defer to Stuart Cheshire's response on this.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>