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

[John Xiao]

Thanks Jesse!

That's true that there is no such patch yet.
Pravin just mentioned "I will send out OVS userspace patch on ovs-dev
mailing list." in
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=142257416618642&w=2

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com> wrote:
> Userspace code is generally licensed under Apache 2 but I don't think
> anyone has proposed such patches to date.
>
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 6:07 PM, John Xiao <johnxiao.cloud at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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