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From: Vadim Suraev <vadim.suraev@gmail.com>
To: Jim Thompson <jim@netgate.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] TCP/IP stack for DPDK
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 18:59:06 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ0CJ8k2xWqN64s_VNyphYZdV6XJL=xeBXFaqdtCBvvWC+R07A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BA33F198-66BB-44CB-BEC5-F8902C0A5BA2@netgate.com>

#You can’t sell the source, you have to make it available, either with the
binary, or to anyone who asks#
But I didn't tell I want to sell it, and I open all the source
On Sep 9, 2014 6:26 PM, "Jim Thompson" <jim@netgate.com> wrote:

> Then you don’t understand licensing.
>
> the GPL has  a requirement that you make one of two offers:
>
> The fourth section for version 2 of the license and the seventh section of
> version 3 require that programs distributed as pre-compiled binaries are
> accompanied by a copy of the source code, or a written offer *valid for any
> third party* to obtain the source code via the same mechanism as the
> pre-compiled binary.
>
> You can’t sell the source, you have to make it available, either with the
> binary, or to anyone who asks.
>
> There are other terms and conditions with the GPL (patent licenses, etc.)
>
> Jim
>
> On Sep 9, 2014, at 8:19 AM, Vadim Suraev <vadim.suraev@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The licensing worms prevent IMHO only selling the source code, although,
> porting may be useful
> On Sep 9, 2014 5:54 PM, "Stephen Hemminger" <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> 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.
>
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 11:30 PM, Vadim Suraev <vadim.suraev@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I've ported the Linux kernel TCP/IP stack to user space and integrated
> with
> DPDK,  the source and documentation and the roadmap will be published (and
> announced) within few days.
> Regards,
> Vadim
> On Sep 9, 2014 9:20 AM, "Matthew Hall" <mhall@mhcomputing.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 08:49:44AM +0800, zimeiw wrote:
>
> I have porting major FreeBSD tcp/ip stack to dpdk. new tcp/ip stack is
>
> based
>
> on dpdk rte_mbuf, rte_ring, rte_memory and rte_table. it is faster to
> forwarding packets.
>
>
> Hello,
>
> This is awesome work to be doing and badly needed to use DPDK for any L4
> purposes where it is very limited. I'll be following your progress.
>
> You didn't mention your name, and compare your work with
> https://github.com/rumpkernel/dpdk-rumptcpip/ , and talk about
>
> behavior /
>
> performance, and how long you think it'll take. I'm curious if you can
>
> give
>
> some more comments.
>
> I'm implementing an RX-side very basic stack myself... but I'm not using
> BSD
> standard APIs or doing TX-side like yours will have.
>
> Matthew.
>
>
>
>
>
>

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-09 15:54 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 [this message]
2014-09-09 20:47       ` Matthew Hall
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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