[Adium-devl] Bonjour networking (It's that time again, folks!)

[Geoff Foster]

Probably not possible to put Apple's Bonjour implementation into
libgaim because of licensing. Bonjour implementation is Apache 2
licensed, libgaim GPLv2, incompatible. If I'm wrong on this then that
is great news, but if I'm right then it sucks, or a workaround would
need to be found.

On 2/17/07, Andreas Monitzer <soc at monitzer.com> wrote:
> On Feb 17, 2007, at 01:43, Phil Dokas wrote:
>
> > On Feb 16, 2007, at 2:46 PM, disposable at infinitenexus.com wrote:
> >
> >> Other notes: for Bonjour, file transfer is what we specifically lack
> >
> > Here here!  That would be a wonderful addition to Adium and it's well
> > sized for a summer coding project.
>
> Well, if Bonjour networking (XEP-0174, http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/
> xep-0174.html) would be implemented in libgaim, we would support all
> that already works on regular XMPP connections.
>
> Since the SummerOfCode-wiki page is not a proper place for discussion
> this, I'd like to take that here:
> Apple's Bonjour-implementation http://developer.apple.com/opensource/
> internet/bonjour.html works fine on Mac OS X (obviously), Linux and
> Windows, so IMO it could be used inside libgaim. It's actually
> regarded as the most complete implementation of the mDNS spec in
> Linux and the only one for Windows, so that wouldn't leave non-Apple
> operating systems as second class citizens.
>
> However, this would lead to Bonjour-networking being a SoC project
> for the gaim project rather than Adium.
>
> andy
>
>
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-- 
Geoff Foster