From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: "Srinivas M.A." <srinivas.aji@gmail.com>
Cc: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Bridge] RSTP location and GPL info
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:52:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081013055227.74dd4d8d@extreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fed120860810011401i33a7d752qd5abf1490b3900f4@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 02:31:04 +0530
"Srinivas M.A." <srinivas.aji@gmail.com> wrote:
> MT,
>
> The rstplib/ directory in Stephen's git repo is the RSTPLIB library
> also available at sourceforge (http://rstplib.sourceforge.net/), but
> with some small modifications for our purposes.
> RSTPLIB itself is under LGPL, and if you intend to use it, it may be
> better to start with the original version from sourceforge.
>
> I wrote another RSTP library to replace RSTPLIB and be compliant with
> 802.1D-2004. I have not hosted that anywhere yet. That library is
> licensed, together with the rest of my RSTP work, as GPL v >= 2.
>
> I will email that to you separately to avoid the attachment on the mailing list.
>
> On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> wrote:
> > 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
EMC code is also in same repository on a branch (emc)
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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
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 [this message]
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