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

[Jesse Gross]

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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