From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ob0-f172.google.com (mail-ob0-f172.google.com [209.85.214.172]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00158AF87 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2014 17:54:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-ob0-f172.google.com with SMTP id wp18so1122087obc.31 for ; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 08:59:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=vNlTgpnM5kwjg+ofdsCAn/+fynNeDziNRVISeUakKjc=; b=F1AuLM0sy+uNmRc3yl8WFeUMRkxHZ3jWOfzpg6wWNpdGTqjvyXY03pBAN5JRYctlor RN6eIECmHrGHvEmLVcCJCT17TejRkAx5dof/zt/sFzp/MHCzHRfHglZQG/F61gSlFvz7 Q2YQxGDIq83/OnDDsb2XePtns2CoxkhywqOlzhkRnJCyMl6cQ5PVQFLhHCZbPmXjH7Hk wYyFz7kwBU9loPI91RmDIdgOX332LmFZgWdRBfoKCe6s37qecqmYoPsXrckImlb/P+aO L0nZ0YqLaIcoqycu7UCuFj0JBnB1SE82vM/1yooz8XkRtSOvEYvt7DCFAPkrA8/xukDu UTng== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.182.20.242 with SMTP id q18mr40124710obe.52.1410278346409; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 08:59:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.202.232.8 with HTTP; Tue, 9 Sep 2014 08:59:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.202.232.8 with HTTP; Tue, 9 Sep 2014 08:59:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4a71bb41.1307.14857e341d5.Coremail.zimeiw@163.com> <20140909062016.GA7050@mhcomputing.net> Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 18:59:06 +0300 Message-ID: From: Vadim Suraev To: Jim Thompson Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.15 Cc: dev@dpdk.org Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] TCP/IP stack for DPDK X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 15:54:04 -0000 #You can=E2=80=99t sell the source, you have to make it available, either w= ith 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" wrote: > Then you don=E2=80=99t 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 o= f > 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 a= ny > third party* to obtain the source code via the same mechanism as the > pre-compiled binary. > > You can=E2=80=99t 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 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" > 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 > 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 (an= d > announced) within few days. > Regards, > Vadim > On Sep 9, 2014 9:20 AM, "Matthew Hall" 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. > > > > > >