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From: Tobias DiPasquale <codeslinger@gmail.com>
To: Luca Abeni <lucabe72@email.it>
Cc: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: How to use ip_queue without linking libipq?
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 08:44:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <876ef97a05062105444d5db604@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1119263393.1985.10.camel@labeni.mm.mbigroup.it>

On 6/20/05, Luca Abeni <lucabe72@email.it> wrote:
> I think that looking at libipq code for understanding how to use ipqueue
> would be a license violation (I would end up with a code too similiar to
> libipq), right?

I believe it would.
 
> Is some documentation about directly using ipqueue available somewhere?
> Can anyone help me?

IANAL, but...

You'd have to clean-room it: get someone else to study the libipq
source and write you a document specifying how to interface with the
ip_queue module via netlink. Yourself, you should not look at the
libipq source, only this other person. That would then allow you to
write a non-GPL interface to ip_queue functionality. This is how the
original third-party BIOS was designed and implemented, circumventing
IBM's proprietary license on it.

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[ Tobias DiPasquale ]
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      reply	other threads:[~2005-06-21 12:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-20 10:29 How to use ip_queue without linking libipq? Luca Abeni
2005-06-21 12:44 ` Tobias DiPasquale [this message]

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