From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wi0-f171.google.com (mail-wi0-f171.google.com [209.85.212.171]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D827CC4A8 for ; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 09:20:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: by wiun10 with SMTP id n10so17567920wiu.1 for ; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 00:20:43 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=u8CsMXLlQ9eFs8V3fI1sYbZ+ERDks99nlCAKi0R961E=; b=J6nj/jhFuHs6HIJQgFe1aONAoESilf48KUKXufL+qTNgGKpAlD/zVsssBDIFJGZSVR /YvDcQOB/qrHeEkwMrLzwbx0VJZSlwRq8xWdRd89gxEX7dVKkd9nt3Do3VoNaLAplI7M 52Bfbem2rbGwmPpD6wN21EzWQFBCTxKiqlW5ZssZoOaPb1Udt4CPdGtxuFwO9v6Fq6Fg mrPa33NMr9VyKWIKc5uHk9zSauBhDDtSSSDm1dawRyBGNEQFXu+R8gJyv+6n8yJeHoRt pj9LCCYASC4uw7GqqD/i5hSRf1oS43Uy5+9Bd+p4wPbvH6Gju79iWr/3gqDL2dY648XQ 5uBg== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkL6S36ZMFckc+ZSisQHo+2I/QlXhrap0cZFfRrQlNftoW+HESGs/EJPcO8rKVbf75jRG9s MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.180.101.138 with SMTP id fg10mr27248864wib.46.1430205643619; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 00:20:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.28.7.144 with HTTP; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 00:20:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <6F92C985-29AC-48D0-A6A5-14738F04E313@netgate.com> References: <26FA93C7ED1EAA44AB77D62FBE1D27BA54D1A917@IRSMSX102.ger.corp.intel.com> <20150424175124.GA30624@mhcomputing.net> <553B9706.1060904@bisdn.de> <20150426215644.GA9021@neilslaptop.think-freely.org> <6F92C985-29AC-48D0-A6A5-14738F04E313@netgate.com> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 10:20:43 +0300 Message-ID: From: Dor Laor 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] Beyond DPDK 2.0 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, 28 Apr 2015 07:20:44 -0000 On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 5:29 AM, Jim Thompson wrote: > > > On Apr 26, 2015, at 4:56 PM, Neil Horman wrote: > > > > On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 04:08:23PM +0000, Wiles, Keith wrote: > >> +1 and besides the GPL or LGPL ship has sailed IMHO and we can not go > back. > > Actually, IANAL, but I think we can. The BSD license allows us to fork > and > > relicense the code I think, under GPL or any other license. I'm not > advocating > > for that mind you, just suggesting that its possible should it ever > become > > needed. > > I, on the other hand, am fairly certain that you can not =E2=80=9Crelicen= se BSD > licensed code under the GPL (or any other license). > > Were this true at law, then the opposite would also be possible. (=E2=80= =9CDon=E2=80=99t > like the license? Just fork!=E2=80=9D) > > +1 While BSD carries many benefits for DPDK (similar to any other library), GPL doesn't carry any benefit in this case. It's not wise not to contribute back to DPDK regardless of any license of choice. Those who do not wish to contribute will always manage to do.. Going back to the list of open source projects on top of DPDK I like to mention the SeaStar project: http://www.seastar-project.org For those who aren't familiar, SeaStar is a high speed messaging framework with a unique shared-nothing approach with a per-core granularity. For our knowledge it offers the first open source TCP/IP implementation on top of DPDK along with many other advantages. DPDK is one of the main building blocks that allow us to reach millions of iops and we're pretty pleased with the project - both the source code as well as the community! Dor