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

[Brad Hards <bhards@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 04:00 am, Harry Goldschmitt wrote:
> Does anyone have an opinion on how this might apply to plug-in
> dissectors.  I'm  writing a dissector for a patented protocol.  The
> intent is to keep it inside the company, but there's always a chance
> someone will get hold of it.  I was assuming that as a separate piece
> of software, making use of Ethereal facilities, I was reasonably
> safe.  After all, I don't think Apples Quick Time plug-in for Mozilla
> puts Quick Time source under GPL.
Depends on "plug-in" meaning. AFAICT, if it runs in the same address space, 
that isn't "mere aggregation", and you'd have to put it under the GPL. If it 
communications over an inter-process communication protocol, then you can 
choose some other license.

No, I'm not a lawyer.

Brad
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