[c-nsp] Nexus 7000

Lincoln Dale (ltd) ltd at cisco.com
Tue Jan 29 18:52:44 EST 2008


Rubens,

> > No. It is a linux kernel. The core system management & HA
> > infrastructure is taken from SAN-OS (ie MDS) with Ethernet L2 & L3
> > functionality laid on top.
> 
> As the Linux kernel and some code commonly used on embedded Linux
> devices are GPL'ed, what is the URL for the part of the code that
> Cisco is now publishing to comply with the GPL license ?

there are no modifications to the standard linux kernel so it complies
with the GPL.

the system runs on top of Linux, but it doesn't have to, nothing is
specific to Linux.


cheers,

lincoln.



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