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Wireshark-users: [Wireshark-users] GPL and tshark

From: Idan Miller <idan.miller@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 14:36:35 +0300
Hi everyone,

We are building a commercial application and wish to use tshark from it in the following way:
- wireshark will be installed sepearately from our application
- our application will use the command line interface to run tshark, giving it a captured cap file
- our application will parse the output and use the info from it

Will that be considered as breaking up the GPL?
As far as I understand, since executing tshark is running it "from arm's length", then this should be ok, is that correct?

Thanks,
Idan Miller