Chris Ricker <kaboom(a)gatech.edu>:
Um, turn on *your* brain, and read Patent 6,101,499. If I remember
right,
Chesire even acknowledge's MS's claims in some of the IETF drafts.
Link-local address configuration has patent claims. The mDNS code has
trademark issues. About the only working part of Zeroconf available for
Linux without issues AFAIK is OpenSLP, and there's no point in shipping that
by itself....
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.
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