[ovs-discuss] [ovs-dev] Open vSwitch STT support

John Xiao johnxiao.cloud at gmail.com
Wed Feb 4 02:07:54 UTC 2015


Thanks Ben!

For user space tunneling patches, I guess they will be under Apache
License 2 which also means the patent licenses will be granted by the
patches distributor/patent holder (i.e. Nicira).

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 12:45 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 12:12:41PM +0800, John Xiao wrote:
>> One question on STT IP, is it free to use STT in commercial products?
>> I believe Nicira has patents on this.
>
> Assuming that Nicira does, the patches are being offered by the patent
> holder under GPLv2, see http://en.swpat.org/wiki/GPLv2_and_patents.


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