#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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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. > > > > > >