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