From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: M T <m.t.linuxbridge@gmail.com>
Cc: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Bridge] RSTP location and GPL info
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 17:32:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081001173246.5ee6696e@speedy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6f6192b30810010757j408cbcb7jd5ee33b8da832cbe@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 10:57:42 -0400
"M T" <m.t.linuxbridge@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am currently working on a project for work where I need to implement RSTP
> on non-Linux platforms (possibly ThreadX). I saw that there was a form by
> Mr. Srinivas Aji that implemented RSTP on Linux Bridge. Can someone please
> tell me if that fork is somewhere on the kernel.org git repository?
>
> I would like to use this work (without changing any code). I don't
> understand the intricacies of GPL.
>
> * Can someone please point me to resources that say what I can and cannot
> use in my project?
> * I cannot open source my project but I am willing to contribute back any
> changes I make to portions of linux bridge. I don't mind testing it on linux
> before submitting changes. Is this alright?
> * Also, I just need to use portions of the project. For example, I only care
> about the state machines and not the interaction with the Linux OS. Can I
> just use bits and pieces of the linux bridge project?
>
> Thanks,
> MT
Did you look at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shemminger/rstp.git
It is GPL v2.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-01 15:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-01 14:57 [Bridge] RSTP location and GPL info M T
2008-10-01 15:32 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2008-10-01 21:01 ` Srinivas M.A.
2008-10-02 13:38 ` M T
2008-10-02 16:28 ` Srinivas M.A.
2008-10-13 12:52 ` Stephen Hemminger
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