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 release the source code, even though I doubt there's anything > of proprietry value in there. > Well, there must be a reason that Wireshark contains a lot of dissector code from company's that rarely do this otherwise.
IMHO: If Wireshark would have been released under a BSD style license (which would allow what you think of), we would probably have a lot less dissector variety - as you're probably not the only one thinking this way. You might argue to your lawyers (or your boss), that releasing the code might be beneficial because of a lot less maintenance and might even be a good marketing thing: - available to your customers - being nice to the open source world - ... You might even be promissed, that there already were some ideas of your executives in the open source direction, and Wireshark code could act as a test how it's working. However, I know from my own experience, that arguing this way can be challenging ... Regards, ULFL _______________________________________________ Wireshark-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev
