IANAL but

I don't think it's more of a problem than e.g. autoconf being GPL.
(It's not.) We don't link with scapy, and it's only used in test
suite. (Also, scapy was already used in the test suite before the
patch.)


On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 8:36 AM Simon Horman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 01:29:48AM +0000, Ihar Hrachyshka wrote:
> > Scapy allows to define packets in descriptive form that is easier to
> > digest and debug.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ihar Hrachyshka <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  tests/ovn-macros.at | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/tests/ovn-macros.at b/tests/ovn-macros.at
> > index ee942e8a6..40ded7bd4 100644
> > --- a/tests/ovn-macros.at
> > +++ b/tests/ovn-macros.at
> > @@ -817,6 +817,29 @@ ovn_trace_client() {
> >      ovs-appctl -t $target trace "$@" | tee trace | sed '/^# /d'
> >  }
> >
> > +# Receives a string that represents scapy python code that represents a 
> > packet.
> > +# Returns a hex-string that contains bytes that reflect the packet 
> > description.
> > +#
> > +# Scapy docs: https://scapy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage.html
> > +#
> > +# Example of usage:
> > +#
> > +# packet=$(fmt_pkt "\
> > +#     Ether(dst='ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff', src='50:64:00:00:00:01') /\
> > +#     IPv6(src='abed::1', dst='ff02::1:ff00:2')               /\
> > +#     ICMPv6ND_NS(tgt='abed::2')                               \
> > +# ")
> > +#
> > +# ovs-appctl netdev-dummy/receive $vif $packet
> > +#
> > +fmt_pkt() {
> > +    echo "from scapy.all import *; \
>
> Hi Ihar,
>
> My understanding is that Scapy's licence is GPL v2 [1]
> whereas OVN is Apache. Is that a problem here?
>
> [1] 
> https://github.com/secdev/scapy/blob/e65180e048ffdb0284a218b6e5ff6d090d4217bd/scapy/all.py#L1
>
> > +          import binascii; \
> > +          out = binascii.hexlify(raw($1)); \
> > +          print(out)" | python3 \
> > +    | sed s/^b\'// | sed s/\'$//  # hexlify prints as b'...' -> truncate
> > +}
> > +
> >  OVS_END_SHELL_HELPERS
> >
> >  m4_define([OVN_POPULATE_ARP], [AT_CHECK(ovn_populate_arp__, [0], 
> > [ignore])])
> > --
> > 2.34.1
> >
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