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

[Jesse Gross]

I think he just meant the pieces to configure the kernel implementation.

Realistically, nobody on this list is going to be able to give you a
legal opinion. You should talk to a lawyer to determine your rights as
far as patents go.

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 8:11 PM, John Xiao <johnxiao.cloud at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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