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 unfortunately are a different species altogether ;-) Still one day you never know... - Martin Ulf Lamping wrote the following on 07/11/2007 09:25 PM: > 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 worldIt's not so much that the code is > proprietry, more I suspect that they are > - ... > > 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 > ��������������������������������������������jy�u�����U����2�צ�m���� > �rV�j��z�b��,� ڶ�V���]jם�g�&�u�_����m4 ---------------------------------------------------------- Scanned by ClamAV antivirus system - http://www.clamav.net Virus signatures last updated: Wed Jul 11 21:33:21 2007 _______________________________________________ Wireshark-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev
