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  1. Bug #387091
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 387091

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In , Lennart (lennart-redhat-bugs) wrote :

It would pull in libavahi-client which is LGPL. la-c pulls in D-Bus. Which is GPL & Academic.

Also, that dependency would be completely optional.

I'd expect a refusal however due to more fundamental issues. i.e. mDNS/DNS-SD is this unreliable, untrusted protocol that is used to spam the local network about the existance of a service. Security people tend to stay away from technology like that and normally don't see the usefulness of this.

Yes, i know, I am not selling this very well right now.... Let's hope I am mistaken.