Re: [Wireshark-dev] GPL license question

2007-07-11 Thread Luis EG Ontanon
On 7/11/07, Ulf Lamping <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin Warnes schrieb: > > Unfortunately this appears to be the case, which is possibly a shame as > > > I wouldn't call the GPL a shame ;-) > > > we have a bunch of plug-in dissectors we would willingly release for > > free download, but it woul

Re: [Wireshark-dev] [PATCH] IEEE 802.15.4 dissectors and libpcap support.

2007-07-11 Thread Richard van der Hoff
Hi Owen, I've just had a very brief skim through this; A couple of points: * The ccitt crc16 routines are already in crc16.h - please could you use them rather than reinventing this particular wheel? * Your patch messes up the indentation in libpcap.c - please can you sort it out? * I'm not g

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Python wrappers for pcapio.[ch]

2007-07-11 Thread Shehjar Tikoo
Anders Waldenborg wrote: > Shehjar Tikoo wrote: >> I am looking for Python wrappers for writing pcap files and I havent >> been able to find a library that does it or does it cleanly. >> >> PS: I ask because I intend to use pcapio.c to create a wrapper. >> PS2: I've looked at both pcap, pylibpcap

Re: [Wireshark-dev] GPL license question

2007-07-11 Thread Phillip Paradis
Essentially, you cannot comply with point in a Wireshark plug-in DLL; in order to compile the DLL, you must have the Wireshark source available, parts of which are linked into the DLL. As Wireshark is GPL, so is the DLL. -- Phil On 7/11/07 8:46 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [Wireshark-dev] GPL license question

2007-07-11 Thread Martin Warnes
I agree 100% ... and challenging doesn't even begin to describe it, I've beaten my head head against a brick wall for 5 years trying to get them to agree to release source to the dissectors we've written, even arguing the exact same points you've mentioned. My boss is converted! lawyers unfort

Re: [Wireshark-dev] GPL license question

2007-07-11 Thread Jaap Keuter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/11/2007 01:16:26 PM: > >> Hi, >> >> Actually I disagree ;) >> >> From reading below the question is "is it an independent and separate >> work"? The GNU FAQ says its not: >> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLAndPlugins > > Unf

Re: [Wireshark-dev] GPL license question

2007-07-11 Thread Ulf Lamping
Martin Warnes schrieb: > Unfortunately this appears to be the case, which is possibly a shame as > I wouldn't call the GPL a shame ;-) > we have a bunch of plug-in dissectors we would willingly release for > free download, but it would be a cold day in hell before our lawyers > agreed to rele

Re: [Wireshark-dev] GPL license question

2007-07-11 Thread Martin Warnes
Unfortunately this appears to be the case, which is possibly a shame as we have a bunch of plug-in dissectors we would willingly release for free download, but it would be a cold day in hell before our lawyers agreed to release the source code, even though I doubt there's anything of proprietr

Re: [Wireshark-dev] GPL license question

2007-07-11 Thread Fulko . Hew
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/11/2007 03:44:13 PM: > Do you really think this case is a "borderline" one if the plugin is > using the wireshark dissection API? No, I am not saying anything. I don't know enough about the details of Wireshark plug-in/dissector development. I'm still trying to f

Re: [Wireshark-dev] GPL license question

2007-07-11 Thread Sebastien Tandel
Do you really think this case is a "borderline" one if the plugin is using the wireshark dissection API? The FAQ pointed by Jaap is about the plug-in mechanism but the plugin is linked with libwireshark which *is* GPLv2. Of course, if you're not dissecting your protocol with the wireshark API, we

Re: [Wireshark-dev] GPL license question

2007-07-11 Thread Fulko . Hew
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/11/2007 01:16:26 PM: > Hi, > > Actually I disagree ;) > > From reading below the question is "is it an independent and separate > work"? The GNU FAQ says its not: > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLAndPlugins Unfortunately, the FAQ is a FAQ and not the

Re: [Wireshark-dev] GPL license question

2007-07-11 Thread Jaap Keuter
Hi, Actually I disagree ;) From reading below the question is "is it an independent and separate work"? The GNU FAQ says its not: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLAndPlugins Thanx, Jaap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/11/2007 10:45:27 AM: > >> No, you c

Re: [Wireshark-dev] GPL license question

2007-07-11 Thread Abhik Sarkar
Doesn't developing a dissector or a plug-in for wireshark always involve including/linking code from the core of wireshark? That would make any plug-in a derivative work of wireshark which is GPL'ed and hence the derivative work must also be distributed under GPL? On 7/11/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[E

Re: [Wireshark-dev] filters & diameter

2007-07-11 Thread Martin Mathieson
Am I right in believing that the Diameter dissector currently ignores the gavp entries within a grouped avp? It may be just as useful (and much less effort?) to only filter based on the innermost AVP without embedding them. e.g. just support e.g. - diameter.avp.server - diameter.avp.client - diam

Re: [Wireshark-dev] filters & diameter

2007-07-11 Thread Luis EG Ontanon
On 7/11/07, Martin Mathieson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/10/07, Luis EG Ontanon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wondered if MATE or the LUA support could make this kind of > filtering possible, but dynamically creating filters is obviously the > right way to do it. In MATE there's no way (mate

Re: [Wireshark-dev] GPL license question

2007-07-11 Thread Fulko . Hew
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/11/2007 10:45:27 AM: > No, you can't keep the code for you nor limit the distribution of the > plugin object code. It is the basic principle of the GPL. If you're > distributing/selling your plugin, you have to distribute the code. And > everyone receiving (paying f

Re: [Wireshark-dev] GPL license question

2007-07-11 Thread W. Borgert
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 10:29:44AM -0400, Jon Andersen wrote: > If I write a plugin for Wireshark, which compiles to a plugin DLL only, and > then I distribute the plugin DLL, am I required by the GPL license to > distribute the source (and for anyone I distribute it to, they can > redistribute the

Re: [Wireshark-dev] GPL license question

2007-07-11 Thread Sebastien Tandel
No, you can't keep the code for you nor limit the distribution of the plugin object code. It is the basic principle of the GPL. If you're distributing/selling your plugin, you have to distribute the code. And everyone receiving (paying for) this code may distribute it again and again ... without yo

[Wireshark-dev] GPL license question

2007-07-11 Thread Jon Andersen
I'm concerned about the requirements of the GPLv2 license. If I write a plugin for Wireshark, which compiles to a plugin DLL only, and then I distribute the plugin DLL, am I required by the GPL license to distribute the source (and for anyone I distribute it to, they can redistribute the source e

Re: [Wireshark-dev] capturing data from a propietary device

2007-07-11 Thread Fulko . Hew
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/10/2007 07:41:52 PM: > > On Jul 10, 2007, at 1:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I'm trying to figure out how to format (or where to place the data) > > in the pcap buffer when capturing my WAN protocols. > > > > I've built a system that will capture the data an

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Python wrappers for pcapio.[ch]

2007-07-11 Thread Shehjar Tikoo
Guy Harris wrote: > On Jul 10, 2007, at 6:08 PM, Shehjar Tikoo wrote: > >> Does anyone know of Python bindings for the pcapio.[ch] code in >> Wireshark source root? >> >> I am looking for Python wrappers for writing pcap files and I havent >> been able to find a library that does it or does it cle

Re: [Wireshark-dev] filters & diameter

2007-07-11 Thread cco
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 06:49:37PM +0100, Martin Mathieson wrote: > OK, I just implemented (2) with change 22284. > You should be able to right-click on a whole AVP that matches the code > you're interested in, choose 'Prepare as Filter | Selected', edit the > last 4 bytes and apply it. cristian:

Re: [Wireshark-dev] filters & diameter

2007-07-11 Thread Martin Mathieson
On 7/10/07, Luis EG Ontanon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A year or more ago I abandoned a way towards (3) (similar to what I > did for radius dictionary) a while ago, due to a personal lack of > diameter use after switching jobs and a stall about how to handle > recursion in attribute_groups. > > I

Re: [Wireshark-dev] filters & diameter

2007-07-11 Thread cco
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 08:42:15PM +0200, Luis EG Ontanon wrote: > A year or more ago I abandoned a way towards (3) (similar to what I > did for radius dictionary) a while ago, due to a personal lack of > diameter use after switching jobs and a stall about how to handle > recursion in attribute_gro

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Python wrappers for pcapio.[ch]

2007-07-11 Thread Anders Waldenborg
Shehjar Tikoo wrote: > I am looking for Python wrappers for writing pcap files and I havent > been able to find a library that does it or does it cleanly. > > PS: I ask because I intend to use pcapio.c to create a wrapper. > PS2: I've looked at both pcap, pylibpcap and pcapy modules for this > f