[Olsr-dev] RFC: Allow to use a specific routing table for dyn_gw_plain

[Henning Rogge]

No licence unfortunately doesn't mean public domain... which is why
Github doesn't allow this setting anymore I think.

We would need to contact the author to relicence it to our BSD style
licence, or take code from the linux-rtnetlink code and modify it.

Henning Rogge

On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Manuel Munz <(spam-protected)> wrote:
> On 05.10.2013 09:42, Henning Rogge wrote:
>> I like the general idea, but I have a question.
>>
>> Did you wrote the Netlink code from scratch or do you used some
>> existing code? I ask because I know (from experience) that netlink
>> code can be tricky as hell.
>>
>> Henning Rogge
>>
>
> Hi Henning,
>
> no, i didn't write the netlink code from scratch. The source where it
> comes from (gist) is linked in a comment at the beginning of the
> getgateway function. I just modified that function a bit (also check for
> the metric, allow to specify a table, fix some compiler warnings). And
> yes, it looks tricky so i'm not sure if i even would be able to write
> that from scratch. I see what your point is:
>
> 1) Code quality - well, i'm not sure, thats why i asked here
> 2) licensing foo - can i assume gist github is public domain or should i
> contact the author and explicitly ask for the license if we want to
> include it like this?

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