[Eug-lug] Apple deworms it's licensing for launchd, bonjour

[T. Joseph Carter]

On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 06:08:26PM -0700, larry price wrote:
> both launchd (sort of a modular init on steroids) 
> http://launchd.macosforge.org/

I think launchd is beginning to grow on me now that I have some clue as to
how to work with it.  Most of that clue came from reading source.  Not
sure it needed to be XML, but whatever.


> and bonjour (multicast dns and zeroconf networking)
> http://bonjour.macosforge.org/
> have been rereleased under the apache license

For Linux, avahi has taken this place for me.  Frankly, avahi is better
than the components of bonjour because you don't need cooperation from the
services to have avahi work properly.  Use with libnss-mdns.


> This is a distinct benefit for those not MacOSX as these projects are
> both clear advances on the general state of the art, and are now about
> as open ass it's possible to be.
> 
> (previously they were under the APSL which was an arcane and
> rescindable license)

Now if they'd get over themselves regarding XNU and just accept that
people are going to use it to bootstrap MacOS X wherever they can, all
would be fine.  =p