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FLUTE, FCAST and ALC Public and Commercial Licences

Vincent Roca — 2006-04-06T12:58:59Z

Two versions of FLUTE/ALC and FCAST/ALC exist:
a public version, available under a GNU/GPL licence
a commercial version, available under a Commercial licence.
These two versions differ significantly, some advanced features being available only in the commercial version. People interested in using FLUTE/ALC or FCAST/ALC in environments where a GNU/GPL licence is not acceptable (see below) are invited to contact me at vincent.roca@inrialpes.fr. The commercial version will enable you to (...)

FLUTE, FCAST and ALC Documents

Vincent Roca — 2006-04-06T12:45:14Z

Standardization Activities
V. Roca, ``FCAST: Scalable Object Delivery for the ALC and NORM Protocols'', IETF RMT Working Group, draft-roca-rmt-newfcast-00.txt (Work in Progress), September 2008. (ASCII) In brief: This is an attempt to standardize the FCAST tool for both ALC and NORM, without infringing Nokia's patent.
T. Paila, M. Luby, R. Lehtonen, V. Roca, R. Walsh, ``FLUTE - File Delivery over Unidirectional Transport (revised)'', IETF RMT Working Group, (...)

FLUTE, FCAST and ALC Details

Vincent Roca — 2006-04-06T12:44:08Z

This project includes several libraries/applications, that can either be used jointly or separately:
FLUTE Tool
FLUTE C++ Library
FCAST Tool
FLUTE Tool
The FLUTE tool is a content distribution application that follows the RFC 3926 specification. It relies on:
the FLUTE library (see below);
ALC, the underlying reliable transport protocol, implemented as a library that is linked by the FLUTE tool;
the LDPC, Reed-Solomon and Null-Code FEC codes. All these codes are implemented as (...)