Thanks a lot for the response.

Can you please tell me how far is the original RSTP implementation from
802.1D-2004? The only reason I ask is to understand if the original library
can be modified to suit my purposes.

Thanks,
MT

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Srinivas M.A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> MT,
>
> The rstplib/ directory in Stephen's git repo is the RSTPLIB library
> also available at sourceforge (http://rstplib.sourceforge.net/), but
> with some small modifications for our purposes.
> RSTPLIB itself is under LGPL, and if you intend to use it, it may be
> better to start with the original version from sourceforge.
>
> I wrote another RSTP library to replace RSTPLIB and be compliant with
> 802.1D-2004. I have not hosted that anywhere yet. That library is
> licensed, together with the rest of my RSTP work, as GPL v >= 2.
>
> I will email that to you separately to avoid the attachment on the mailing
> list.
>
> On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 10:57:42 -0400
> > "M T" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> I am currently working on a project for work where I need to implement
> RSTP
> >> on non-Linux platforms (possibly ThreadX). I saw that there was a form
> by
> >> Mr. Srinivas Aji that implemented RSTP on Linux Bridge. Can someone
> please
> >> tell me if that fork is somewhere on the kernel.org git repository?
> >>
> >> I would like to use this work (without changing any code). I don't
> >> understand the intricacies of GPL.
> >>
> >> * Can someone please point me to resources that say what I can and
> cannot
> >> use in my project?
> >> * I cannot open source my project but I am willing to contribute back
> any
> >> changes I make to portions of linux bridge. I don't mind testing it on
> linux
> >> before submitting changes. Is this alright?
> >> * Also, I just need to use portions of the project. For example, I only
> care
> >> about the state machines and not the interaction with the Linux OS. Can
> I
> >> just use bits and pieces of the linux bridge project?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> MT
> >
> > Did you look at
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shemminger/rstp.git
> >
> > It is GPL v2.
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