In the service of Aunt Tillie -- Zero-configuration networking

[Chris Ricker]

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