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
