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== Avahi vs. Bonjour == The Avahi project started in 2004 because [[Apple Inc.|Apple]]'s Zeroconf implementation, [[Bonjour (software)|Bonjour]], used the GPL-incompatible [[Apple Public Source License]]. In 2006 Apple [[Software relicensing|relicensed]] parts of Bonjour under the [[Apache License]].<ref>{{cite mailing list |url=http://lists.apple.com/archives/bonjour-dev/2006/Aug/msg00005.html |title=Fwd: Apple Opens Up: Bonjour now under Apache license |date=2006-08-07 |accessdate=18 March 2015 |mailing-list=bonjour-dev |last=Prabhakar |first=Ernest Prabhakar |archive-date=2018-07-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180729081353/https://lists.apple.com/archives/bonjour-dev/2006/Aug/msg00005.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Avahi's performance resembles that of Bonjour, sometimes exceeding it; however Avahi can lose services when managing large numbers of requests simultaneously.<ref>[http://lipn.fr/~cerin/documents/PresentationSGS08heithem.pdf Analysis of Peer-to-Peer Protocols Performance for Establishing a Decentralized Desktop Grid Middleware]</ref>
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