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

[Geoff Foster]

Ah, good call. I missed that 3-clause BSD part (that's what happens
when you don't read it all). Looks promising then.

On 2/17/07, Andreas Monitzer <soc at monitzer.com> wrote:
> On Feb 17, 2007, at 09:21, Geoff Foster wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
>  From Apple's web page:
> > The mDNSResponder daemon source code is licensed under the terms of
> > the Apache License, Version 2.0. To accommodate compatibility with
> > the widest possible range of client source code licenses, the DNS-
> > SD shared library source code is licensed under the "Three-Clause
> > BSD License".
>
> Since libgaim wouldn't link to the daemon, but to the shared library,
> the "Three-Clause BSD License" comes into effect. Since I didn't know
> what they meant by that (original BSD, which is GPL-incompatible or
> modified BSD, which is compatible), I looked at the source
> distribution. It says:
>
> > To accommodate license compatibility with the widest possible range
> > of client code licenses, the shared library code, which is linked
> > at runtime into the same address space as the client using it, is
> > licensed under the terms of the "Three-Clause BSD License".
> >
> > The Linux Name Service Switch code, contributed by National ICT
> > Australia Ltd (NICTA) is licensed under the terms of the NICTA Public
> > Software Licence (which is substantially similar to the "Three-Clause
> > BSD License", with some additional language pertaining to
> > Australian law).
>
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> The page http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html explains the
> difference. Since that license doesn't contain the advertising
> clause, the library is under the modified BSD license, and thus,
> compatible with GPL and libgaim.
> (of course IANAL, but I think that additional clause shouldn't cause
> any problems)
>
> andy
>
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Geoff Foster