<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252">
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)">
<style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
span.EmailStyle19
{mso-style-type:personal-reply;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
color:windowtext;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-size:10.0pt;}
@page WordSection1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style>
</head>
<body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap:break-word">
<div class="WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Laurent,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for your response. Indeed a valid question.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’m checking with my legal team on this. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sudarshan<o:p></o:p></p>
<div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Laurent GUERBY <laurent@guerby.net><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 7:15 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>Nallan Chakravarthy, Sudarshan <Sudarshan.NallanChakravarthy@netapp.com>, bird-users@trubka.network.cz <bird-users@trubka.network.cz><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: Is BFD extractable from Bird?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">NetApp Security WARNING: This is an external email. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
On Tue, 2022-11-15 at 10:48 +0000, Nallan Chakravarthy, Sudarshan via<br>
Bird-users wrote:<br>
> Hello Bird Team,<br>
> I’m Sudarshan, a software developer at NetApp.<br>
> I have been using Bird as a peer for testing BGP functionality of<br>
> NetApp’s Ontap software stack. Thanks to the Bird community!<br>
> I looked at Bird’s BFD implementation. Was wondering if it is even<br>
> plausible to extract only the BFD functionality out of Bird<br>
> and use it with our existing BGP implementation. I see that BFD is<br>
> tightly integrated with Bird’s core software libraries and<br>
> so it doesn’t look like a trivial lift and shift. That said, I wanted<br>
> to check with this group to see if there is a way to do it.<br>
><br>
> Appreciate your response.<br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
> Sudarshan<br>
<br>
Hi Sudarshan,<br>
<br>
Before looking at the technical aspects if you haven't done so I<br>
suggest you reach for your company lawyers and ask them if using part<br>
of software under the GNU GPL v2+ is okay for your netapp project or<br>
not.<br>
<br>
<a href="https://gitlab.nic.cz/labs/bird/-/blob/master/README">https://gitlab.nic.cz/labs/bird/-/blob/master/README</a><br>
"This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify<br>
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by<br>
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or<br>
(at your option) any later version."<br>
<br>
Sincerely,<br>
<br>
Laurent<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>