Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Licensing/Distribution Question

[Dave Shawley <daveshawley@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I got a question about about distributing Ethereal as an internal tool
for our field support guys. We have a number of proprietary protocols
that I have written dissectors for. I have been using it for my own
debugging purposes since I am responsible for writing the protocol
servers. Anyway, if we wanted to distribute Ethereal internally what
are the distribution requirements since it is GPLed?

I guess that my real question is: do we have to distribute the source
for our dissectors or is it legal to release binary form dissectors if
we provide links to the source for Ethereal?

Now for the real story... my manager really wants to distribute Ethereal
since it is a *very* useful debugging tool. She thinks that since it is
an internal distribution, we shouldn't have to divulge the source for
our dissectors. I'm pretty sure we have to distribute the source but I
figured that I would ask anyway.

Now if we do have to distribute the source, is it legal to to dist the
source on the same disk? I think that our lawyers will go for this one
since the disks are only available to our internal FEs. Anyway, I need
some response on this from the legalease on this list.

Thanks,

Dave Shawley
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