Re: "Jaguar" additions

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Tuesday, August 20, 2002, at 06:41 AM, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:

> > > Well we shouldn't look at this code, particularly anyone interested 
> > > in writing those classes. Particularly since it's an open standard, 
> > > we could have the ability to drive it's adoption on GNU/Linux and 
> > > other Free OSs. That would be cool.
> >
> > True, since it's an open standard, I guess it's not really necessary 
> > to look at existing source code. There's even a draft RFC at 
> > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-zeroconf-reqts-10.txt . 
> > (There are more documents and information at www.zeroconf.org.)
>
> The license on the code may be incompatible with LGPL, so if we took 
> the knowledge
> from looking at that source and built it into GNUstep we could get in 
> trouble with
> Apple insisting that we release GNUstep under their license.

Actually copyright is a bigger issue I guess ... GNU projects have to 
have copyright
assigned to the Free Software Foundation (simplifies legal matters 
defending copyleft
infringement if the entirety of the copyright for a project is owned by 
the FSF) and
any code we could be accused of copying from elsewhere would be a 
problem.