Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Making a draft plugin available

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:32:30 -0700

Richard Achmatowicz wrote:

The plugin source is freely available at http://javagroups.cvs.sourceforge.net/javagroups/wireshark-plugin. Rather than requiring users to download wireshark, download the plugin and then modify the wireshark distribution by hand to incorporate the plugin, we would like to make prepared wireshark binaries freely available on the JGroups SourceForge project, complied for a few of the most common OSs.

Are there any licensing issues to be taken into account before doing this?

jgroups/COPYING is the GPLv2, so you've taken care of the biggest licensing issue there. Just follow all the constraints in that document; there's no licensing issue with making binaries available, as long as the source from which the binaries were built is available (lots of GPLed software is available in binary form, including Wireshark).