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============
Open vSwitch
============
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What is Open vSwitch?
---------------------
manpages are customized to your configuration as part of the build process, so
we recommend building Open vSwitch before reading the manpages.
+License
+-------
+
+The following is a summary of the licensing of files in this distribution.
+As mentioned, Open vSwitch is licensed under the open source Apache 2 license.
+Some files may be marked specifically with a different license, in which case
+that license applies to the file in question.
+
+
+Files under the datapath directory are licensed under the GNU General Public
+License, version 2.
+
+File build-aux/cccl is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2.
+
+The following files are licensed under the 2-clause BSD license.
+ include/windows/getopt.h
+ lib/getopt_long.c
+ lib/conntrack-tcp.c
+
+The following files are licensed under the 3-clause BSD-license
+ include/windows/netinet/icmp6.h
+ include/windows/netinet/ip6.h
+ lib/strsep.c
+
+Files under the xenserver directory are licensed on a file-by-file basis.
+Refer to each file for details.
+
+Files lib/sflow*.[ch] are licensed under the terms of either the
+Sun Industry Standards Source License 1.1, that is available at:
+ http://host-sflow.sourceforge.net/sissl.html
+or the InMon sFlow License, that is available at:
+ http://www.inmon.com/technology/sflowlicense.txt
+
Contact
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