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.cl...@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 <je...@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.cl...@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 <b...@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. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> dev mailing list >>> d...@openvswitch.org >>> http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
