Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] ClearSight/GPL update

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 03:25:47PM -0500, Gerald Combs wrote:
> ClearSight shipped me a new version of their Analyzer which (as far as I 
> can tell) addresses the GPL violations.  Ethereal now comes on a 
> separate CD, and is installed as an application in a separate directory 
> (c:\Program Files\ThirdPartyDecodeEngine).  The new version of CSA 
> communicates with Ethereal via OLE.

Presumably they run in separate processes, rather than Ethereal being an
in-process OLE server?

> The modified Ethereal source (including OLE enhancements) is available 
> on their site.

The OLE enhancements might be useful, assuming they're not overly
specific to their analyzer (i.e., if other applications could also drive
it).

Other desktop environments might have similar mechanisms (DCOP, Bonobo,
etc.).