Hi Laurent, I checked with the legal team. They don’t see any issues as long as the part of software(BFD) runs as a separate application under GPLv2 and doesn’t get linked to any of our proprietary code. Having clarified that, I would be interested to know if there is a way to make Bird’s BFD implementation a standalone application. Let me know. Thanks, Sudarshan From: Nallan Chakravarthy, Sudarshan <Sudarshan.NallanChakravarthy@netapp.com> Date: Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 10:13 AM To: Laurent GUERBY <laurent@guerby.net>, bird-users@trubka.network.cz <bird-users@trubka.network.cz> Subject: Re: Is BFD extractable from Bird? Hi Laurent, Thanks for your response. Indeed a valid question. I’m checking with my legal team on this. Regards, Sudarshan From: Laurent GUERBY <laurent@guerby.net> Date: Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 7:15 AM To: Nallan Chakravarthy, Sudarshan <Sudarshan.NallanChakravarthy@netapp.com>, bird-users@trubka.network.cz <bird-users@trubka.network.cz> Subject: Re: Is BFD extractable from Bird? 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. On Tue, 2022-11-15 at 10:48 +0000, Nallan Chakravarthy, Sudarshan via Bird-users wrote:
Hello Bird Team, I’m Sudarshan, a software developer at NetApp. I have been using Bird as a peer for testing BGP functionality of NetApp’s Ontap software stack. Thanks to the Bird community! I looked at Bird’s BFD implementation. Was wondering if it is even plausible to extract only the BFD functionality out of Bird and use it with our existing BGP implementation. I see that BFD is tightly integrated with Bird’s core software libraries and so it doesn’t look like a trivial lift and shift. That said, I wanted to check with this group to see if there is a way to do it.
Appreciate your response.
Thanks, Sudarshan
Hi Sudarshan, Before looking at the technical aspects if you haven't done so I suggest you reach for your company lawyers and ask them if using part of software under the GNU GPL v2+ is okay for your netapp project or not. https://gitlab.nic.cz/labs/bird/-/blob/master/README "This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version." Sincerely, Laurent