From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 17:32:46 +0200 From: Stephen Hemminger Message-ID: <20081001173246.5ee6696e@speedy> In-Reply-To: <6f6192b30810010757j408cbcb7jd5ee33b8da832cbe@mail.gmail.com> References: <6f6192b30810010757j408cbcb7jd5ee33b8da832cbe@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Bridge] RSTP location and GPL info List-Id: Linux Ethernet Bridging List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: M T Cc: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 10:57:42 -0400 "M T" 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.