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 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.
I think instead that , there would be hundreds of wireshark derivatives some commercial and mostly closed source, none of which would offer a tenth of the functionality offered by The One GPLd Wireshark. To quote Linus " But for a project I actually care about, I would never choose the BSD license. The license doesn't encode my fundamental beliefs of "fairness". I think the BSD license encourages a "everybody for himself" mentality, and doesn't encourage people to work together, and to merge. " -- This information is top security. When you have read it, destroy yourself. -- Marshall McLuhan _______________________________________________ Wireshark-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev
