Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Making a draft plugin available

["Peter Johansson" <peterjohansson73@xxxxxxxxx>]

2008/7/4 Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Richard Achmatowicz wrote:

> The plugin source is freely available at
> http://javagroups.cvs.sourceforge.net/javagroups/wireshark-plugin.
> Rather than requiring users to download wireshark, download the plugin
> and then modify the wireshark distribution by hand to incorporate the
> plugin, we would like to make prepared wireshark binaries freely
> available on the  JGroups SourceForge project, complied for a few of the
> most common OSs.
>
> Are there any licensing issues to be taken into account before doing this?

jgroups/COPYING is the GPLv2, so you've taken care of the biggest
licensing issue there.  Just follow all the constraints in that
document; there's no licensing issue with making binaries available, as
long as the source from which the binaries were built is available (lots
of GPLed software is available in binary form, including Wireshark).

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Another alternative would be to add the plugin source code to the Wireshark source tree instead, thus giving the possibility to enhance it (or produce bugfixes) by even more developers. That way it would be part of the official Wireshark binaries instead which already are available for a number of different platforms.

 

Regards, Peter