Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Missing p_report_failure

[Lars Roland <Lars.Roland@xxxxxxx>]

Guy Harris wrote:
> Lars Roland said:
>
> > The plugins export functions, too.
>
>
> What functions do they *directly* export, rather than just being imported
> with GetProcAddress() (as is the case with the two registration functions
> in the plugin) or exported with "create_dissector_handle()" or
> "new_create_dissector_handle()" and other Ethereal APIs that take function
> pointers as arguments?
Well, I thought of those two registration functions.

A libethereal.dll might work as a replacement for the plugin api table. 
I think it is worth a try.

However we should make it explicitly clear that this is a GPL'ed dll and 
only GPL'ed applications are allowed to use it. I think of a note on the 
webpage and specially at the download location for the windows 
installers and somewhere in the installer.

I think there is a special GPL (not LGPL) license for libraries, isn't it ?

Regards,

Lars