Chris Ricker <kaboom@xxxxxxxxxx>: > 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. -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
