Re: Another dependency on Apple

#1 That says the patent in question expired. Might there be other relevant patents? Yes, and
the same is true for any modern software. However major corporations like Apple would be
barred from even RAND licensing if they'd been involved in creation of the relevant standard
at IETF, W3C (for most areas of competence) or certain other bodies. So there's no reason to
be more worried about this than about say, GCC, or Linux itself, which are both complicated
enough that they undoubtedly infringe on some outstanding bogus patent somewhere in the world.

#2 That's about LLv4 and I think everyone else was discussing mDNS. LLv4 eventually became an
RFC while mDNS stalled, but the Avahi code is an implementation of mDNS, not LLv4, and indeed
Linux support for LLv4 remains rather poor though mostly usable.