Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] [PATCH] Make Net-SNMP Optional for VC++ Build

[Noah Misch <noah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 11:09:42AM +0200, Olivier Biot wrote:

> Is it 100% out of the question to ask the Net-SNMP developers whether
> we're allowed to use portions of the Net-SNMP code which *don't* have
> us break the GPL license and their license (and add a reference to
> AUTHORS)? Maybe that isn't the easiest alternative for maintaining the
> source code trees, but I'd rather not reinvent the wheel as I may also
> reinvent the flat tyre as a result :)

What to ask?  Net-SNMP falls under several three-clause BSD licenses
(net-snmp-5.1.1/COPYING).  ./configure --without-openssl will give you a
GPL-compatible library.

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