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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.