On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 06:55:39AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...]
| While this language maybe ambiguous and debatable by all and sundry as to its | implications, what it implies is that by releasing a decoder under GPL, I | potentially cannot enforce my patent on my proprietary protocol. Lawyers are | unwilling to release decoders because of this restriction. dinesh, ethereal already contains dissectors that decode protocols which are patented by your employer; EIGRP,CDP,HSRP just to name a few ... i fail to understand why a dissector for a proprietary protocol does infringe patents and copyright laws; ... applying reverse logic: did the publication of the EIGRP,CDP,HSRP dissector in ethereal violate any of your employers rights in the past ? /hannes
