On Thu, 04.08.05 11:25, Martin Pool ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On 4 Aug 2005, Lennart Poettering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Please don't merge it. HOWL is based on Apple's mDNSResponder code > > which is licensed under AFPL which caused it to be removed from > > Debian, since AFPL is considered non-free under the DFSG. > > > > When I wrote that patch some time ago I wasn't aware of that > > problem. Now I am and working on "Avahi", an LGPLed replacementf for > > the Apple code. > > OK. > > I did think at the time that AFPL was incompatible, but some people > (from Apple?) said that it was not.
There are many different opinions on this. Some consider it "free enough" (the KDE people as an example), many are simply ignorant, some consider Debian's position stalinistic, and some tend to follow Debian's argumentation (like me). One of the many flamewars about this: http://lists.porchdogsoft.com/pipermail/howl-users/2005-April/000584.html It's a fact that AFPL code will not be accepted by the Debian project and the last time I heard Redhat said something similar. Therefore: better not depend on it. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering; lennart [at] poettering [dot] de ICQ# 11060553; GPG 0x1A015CC4; http://0pointer.de/lennart/ __ distcc mailing list http://distcc.samba.org/ To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/distcc