Raghavendra Pai (ragpai) wrote:
If YES, Can I use the code for commercial purpose ?
I've added a FAQ about this:
http://www.ethereal.com/faq.html#q1.3
It says
Q 1.3: Can I use Ethereal commercially?
A: Yes, if, for example, you mean "I work for a commercial
organization; can I use Ethereal to capture and analyze network traffic
in our company's networks or in our customer's networks?"
If you mean "Can I use Ethereal as part of my commercial product?", see
the next entry.
"The next entry" is
http://www.ethereal.com/faq.html#q1.4
and says
Q 1.4: Can I use Ethereal as part of my commercial product?
A: As noted, Ethereal is licended under the GNU General Public License.
The GPL imposes conditions on your use of GPL'ed code in your own
products; you cannot, for example, make a "derived work" from Ethereal,
by making modifications to it, and then sell the resulting derived work
and not allow recipients to give away the resulting work. You must also
make source to your changes to Ethereal available to all recipients of
your modified version. See the GPL FAQ for more details; in particular,
note the answer to the question about modifying a GPLed program and
selling it commercially, and the question about linking GPLed code with
other code to make a proprietary program.
You can combine a GPLed program such as Ethereal and a commercial
program as long as they communicate "at arm's length", as per this item
in the GPL FAQ.
The version at the URL given above has links to the GPL, the GPL FAQ,
and the items in the GPL FAQ to which it refers.
