Scope

An OSS implementation of the IEEE 1722 standard that runs on Linux in user space

Fit to COVESA

IEEE1722 (AVTP) is a very "automotive" technology to transport or tunnel various data formats in a vehicle. Compared to high level protocols such as SOME-IP or DDS, 1722 is a layer-2 protocol, that emphasizes simplicity and performance.  For certain applications it can even be implemented "in hardware" without the need for a microcontroller running a full stack.

Gap

The proposed project will greatly change and extend the scope of an existing project https://github.com/Avnu/libavtp that is not active anymore, and merely focusses on the audio/video ports, but leaves out automotive relevant things such as CAN. The goal is to make this transparent by forking form the original repository.

This is allowed, as the original is licenses under a 3-clause BSD license.

The goal is to keep the license as 3-clause BSD, as it is very permissive. (Except making it easy to apply it commercially, it also fully compatible with Apache-2.0 license used by many "new" SDV projects or MPL license used core COVESA projects)