[Bloat] [Cake] Two questions re high speed congestionmanagement anddatagram protocols

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Mon Jul 10 18:55:06 EDT 2023


On Mon, 10 Jul 2023 23:27:46 +0200
Sebastian Moeller <moeller0 at gmx.de> wrote:

> For what it is worth, the tsv working group is considering whether to process mp-dccp on the standards track, but then the IETF seems not to care too deeply about open-source licence compliance. Or recent kernel implementations or implementations that have a realistic path towards mainline inclusion... but I digress.

The issue is the MP-DCCP implementation is derived from the existing kernel DCCP which is GPL-v2.
You can't go randomly mixing proprietary code and GPL code in the kernel.


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