As a research and development service, the contract is excluded from the scope of public procurement law (cf. § 116(1)(2) GWB). The dbus-broker project is an implementation of a message bus as defined by the D-Bus specif…
ication, which provides a communication platform to machinelocal applications. Its aim is to provide high performance and reliability, while keeping compatibility to the D-Bus reference implementation. It is exclusively written for Linux systems, and makes use of many modern features provided byrece
nt Linux kernel releases. While compatibility to existing D-Bus implementations is crucial, there are several situations where dbus-broker deviates from existing practices, and provides its own solutions.