[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] networking questions & requests

[From: Weinehall David (Nokia-M/Tampere)]

On mån, 2005-06-13 at 09:35 -0300, ext Elvis Pfützenreuter wrote:
> > Are you using avahi or howl for that?
> 
> The current approach we are taking is: 
> 
> * created a patch for udhcpc so it will do link-local address
> assignment as well as DHCP (done, need to publish the package though);
> 
> * adding D-Bus support to Howl's mDNSResponder, as well as an
> easy-to-use DNS-SD API for applications.

Please use something else than howl...  Debian went through quite an
effort to get rid of all uses of libhowl from Debian, because of
APL v2.0 being considered non-free (mainly due to a quite evil
patent clause).


Regards: David Weinehall