From: Matthew Hall <mhall@mhcomputing.net>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] TCP/IP stack for DPDK
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 13:47:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140909204702.GB11510@mhcomputing.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOaVG178NA5CziT1hKScmghdbiQe25ESbTWJiDZtATkJxDXFxQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 07:54:19AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Porting Linux stack to DPDK opens up a licensing can of worms.
> Linux code is GPLv2, and DPDK code is BSD. Any combination of the two would
> end up
> being covered by the Linux GPLv2 license.
It would be a can of worms for a closed-source app. Which is why some others
have used the BSD stack. But it doesn't mean it isn't useful code.
Matthew.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-09 20:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-09 0:49 zimeiw
2014-09-09 6:20 ` Matthew Hall
2014-09-09 6:30 ` Jim Thompson
2014-09-09 6:30 ` Vadim Suraev
2014-09-09 6:38 ` Zhang, Helin
2014-09-09 6:42 ` Vadim Suraev
2014-09-09 6:47 ` Zhang, Helin
2014-09-09 6:58 ` Matthew Hall
2014-09-09 12:16 ` Alexander Nasonov
2014-09-09 15:00 ` Jim Thompson
2014-09-09 20:17 ` Alexander Nasonov
2014-09-09 20:51 ` Matthew Hall
2014-09-09 21:30 ` Alexander Nasonov
2014-09-09 21:59 ` Matthew Hall
2014-09-09 22:47 ` Alexander Nasonov
2014-09-09 14:54 ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-09-09 15:19 ` Vadim Suraev
2014-09-09 15:26 ` Jim Thompson
2014-09-09 15:59 ` Vadim Suraev
2014-09-09 20:47 ` Matthew Hall [this message]
2014-09-09 7:30 ` zimeiw
2014-09-09 16:09 ` Jeff Shaw
2014-09-09 21:49 ` Aaro Koskinen
2014-09-10 3:42 ` zimeiw
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