[AG-TECH] contribution to QuickBridge

[Ivan R. Judson]

Hey Tom,

The license below is perfectly acceptable and poses no conflict with the
AGTk license. We'll see what Stephen wants to do with the modified version
he's worked on.

Thanks for responding, it's a big help.

--Ivan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov 
> [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Tom Lehman
> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 2:52 AM
> To: shudo at ni.aist.go.jp
> Cc: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] contribution to QuickBridge
> 
> 
> 
> I intended for my code to have an open BSD style license.  
> Not sure about Stephen Booth or Access Grid in general.
> 
> Below is my generic license statement. If this in anyway 
> conflicts with Access Grid copyright policy, then I would 
> default to their license statements for QuickBridge releases.
> 
> Tom Lehman
> 
> 
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov]On
> > Behalf Of shudo at ni.aist.go.jp
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 4:54 AM
> > To: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> > Subject: [AG-TECH] contribution to QuickBridge
> >
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I have modified source code of QuickBridge to combine broadcast 
> > domains (subnets) into a single multicast domain. In other 
> words, the 
> > modified QuickBridge can join a multicast group and have several 
> > unicast peers (other QuickBridges) at the same time and 
> then forward 
> > multicast traffic between several subnets.
> >
> > I want to return the modified code to the AG community, but 
> > distributing it by myself is not a good way and may not be 
> allowed by 
> > license. Conditions of license and intellectual properties 
> seem not to 
> > be clear. Can anyone make them clear and give us any suggestions on 
> > how to contribute for QuickBridge?
> >
> > There are two names of contributors to QuickBridge in the 
> source code, 
> > Tom Lehman (ISI) and Stephen Booth (EPCC). The former is 
> the original 
> > writer of the `mboneuctomcgw' which is the base of 
> QuickBridge and the 
> > source code says that the latter has re-written it heavily. 
>  Are they 
> > the only contributors (possible copyright holders) to QuickBridge?
> > If so, do you (especially Lehman and Booth) think it's good thing to
> > give us license statements of QuickBridge?
> >
> >   Kazuyuki Shudo
> >   Grid Technology Research Center
> >   National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology 
> > (AIST)
> >
> 
> 
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