[dpdk-dev] TCP/IP stack for DPDK

[Vadim Suraev]

#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:
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> 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:
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> 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:
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> On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 08:49:44AM +0800, zimeiw wrote:
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> I have porting major FreeBSD tcp/ip stack to dpdk. new tcp/ip stack is
>
> based
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> on dpdk rte_mbuf, rte_ring, rte_memory and rte_table. it is faster to
> forwarding packets.
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>
> 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
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> behavior /
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> performance, and how long you think it'll take. I'm curious if you can
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> give
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> 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.
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