Apple Releases Rendezvous As Open Source

clarencek writes "Apple has released Rendezvous as Open Source, as promised. Excerpt: Starting today, developers can download Rendezvous as open source under the Apple Public Source License. Rendezvous is part of a broader Open Source release today from Apple which includes the Darwin 6.0.1 operating system and additional Open Directory plug-ins. Together, these underscore Apple's commitment to making core protocols freely available as open standards and open source."

Comments

Re:APSL is no opensource

[Anonymous Coward]

GPL - 6 pages of legalsleaze 25000+ words.
BSD - 1/4 page less than 300 words.

BSD code can be used in GPL
GPL code can't be used in BSD

Looks like BSD is MORE Open Source than your 'real open source' idea. Oh, and next time Bruce, post with your name.

bad link...

[NNland]

I don't know what's up with the apple webservers, but they have a problem with;
http://developer.apple.com/Darwin/
as listed in the link above. Switching it to;
http://developer.apple.com/darwin/
works fine though.

Re:yes it is nice shame its not compatable with GP

[spankalee]

APL is compatible with BSD, and they do give back the the *BSD projects, even though the BSD license doesn require it, as well as release Darwin as open source.

Rendezvous, SLP, and UPnP

[maggard]

OK - complete karmawhore here (like I need it) but before there are a hundred what is it? posts here are links to the answers:

• IETF Zero Configuration Networking (Zeroconf) Group
• IETF Zeroconf on Apple Rendezvous and Zeroconf
• Apple's Customer-pitch for Rendezvous
• Apple's Developer-pitch for Rendezvous

Here's an overview of earlier Apple implementation called SLP (RFC 2608) also used by Novell:

• Service Location Protocol

Finally, for completeness here is UPnP:

• Universal Plug and Play Forum
• MS's Developer kit
• Intel's Developer info
• Intel-developed SDK, Open Sourced.

Re:Darwin 6.0.1 not the latest

[Draoi]

The 6.1 MacOS X kernel update only came out a few days ago by Software Update. Boxed Jaguar is still only 6.0.1, as is the latest Darwin release. The above references are confusing as they refer to both 6.0.1 and 6.1

One Apple developer on the darwin-developer mailing list hinted strongly that 6.1 Darwin would be out shortly.