perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Aaron Brown <>]

Hey Gaetano,

On Mar 12, 2015, at 6:17 AM, Gaetano Vocca <> wrote:

Dear all,

here I come with a question which is rather non-technical so I apologize if this is not the place to ask it.

I’ve been playing with perfSonar a little in the last couple of months and now I would like to propose, to the company I work for, to include it as part of a commercial project we are designing.

In the scope of the project, perfSonar would be used as network performace data generator and these data would be sent to a custom application for further processing. This should be obtained by means of posthooks (for bwctl and owping) and log monitoring for NDT (I would monitor /var/log/ndt/web100srv.log).

Is there anything about licensing I should take care of in advance? Actually, I tried to search the perfSonar web site but was unable to find information about licensing constraints I should obey, may you help me understanding? Is it possible to deploy perfSonar as a component of a commercial product?

BWCTL and OWAMP are both licensed under the Apache 2.0 license, so you’re good on that front. NDT has a slightly different license: https://ndt.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/copyright.html . However, in my reading (IANAL), you should be good on that front as well as long as you meet the copyright notice criteria. I’m not sure what tools that underlie BWCTL you plan on using, but it’d be good to verify those as well. However, I can’t imagine that any of them have restrictions on commercial use.

Cheers,

Aaron