On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 1:17 AM Solomon Peachy wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 10:26:29PM +0100, Till Kamppeter wrote: > > By the way, who is the original author of Avahi? > > None other than Lennart Pottering. :) > > - Solomon > This is not correct. Avahi was initially created by Trend Lloyd in early 2004. He was certainly inspired by Apple's Bonjour, which unfortunately was not Open Source initially, so there as a strong motivation to implement a FOSS ZeroConf stack, since all of the relevant specs (mDNS + DNS-SD) were already there at IETF, and open. Later that same year Lennart Poettering started a similar project to implement mDNS/DNS-SD functionality called "FlexMDNS". Both projects united and merged their code bases sometime in 2005. Though I have no idea which of the two guys wrote more lines of code that still exists in today's code base, Poettering surely had a heavy impact on today's Avahi. Apple released Bonjour as Open Source software under the Apache License only in 2006. Avahi's name certainly was Trend's decision, and he started his implementation half a year before Poettering. Poettering's last commit into Avahi's GitHub code was in Sept 2012. Trend's last commit was 10 days ago. The last time Trend merged a major pull request was in August 2018. See https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/commits?author=lathiat. According to https://github.com/lathiat Trend works for Canonical.