Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Clarification on licensing

[Chris Zakelj <cazakelj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

IANAL... but...

As I understand things, if you write a script, you can put it under 
whatever license (GPL, LGPL, Mozilla, BSD, Microsoft-Gestapo, etc) you 
like.  That (t)etheral is GPL'd means that if you make any changes to 
the (t)ethereal code and want to release it, you need to send those 
changes back to the team so they can decide whether or not to include it 
in the next release.

Chandra R wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to get somethings clarified regarding GPL license.
>
> The usage scenario is like this:
> 1) A TCL script would spawn a "tethereal" program using TCL's
>     'open' or 'exec' command.
> 2) The script would read the program's output and make some
>     decisions by doing string matching.
>
> My question is: Should the calling TCL script be a GPL source? 
> Or can it be designated as proprietary?
>
> -- Chandra.
>
> Chandrasekar R
> Software Engineer
> HCL Technologies India
>
> http://voip.hcltech.com
> http://www.hcltech.com/san
>
>
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