On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Ed Beroset <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > -----Original Message----- > >From: Eloy Paris <[email protected]> > >Sent: Sep 7, 2010 3:11 PM > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Usage of MS protocol documentation in > Wireshark > > > >On 09/07/2010 02:20 PM, Stephen Fisher wrote: > > > >[...] > > > >>Microsoft folks would probably find it useful to troubleshoot > >> their software anyway ;) > > > >Don't know if things have changed recently but a couple of years ago a > >co-worker went to teach a networking class at the Microsoft Redmond > >campus and he was not allowed to use open source tools (including > >Wireshark) during the training. Back then the use of open source tools > >was frowned upon. I understand they are more open with regards to open > >source these days so things may have changed a little ;-) > > There is some evidence that suggests they were never as allergic to open > source as some of their executives would like you to believe. If you look > at files shipped with the Windows operating system, including ftp.exe, > finger.exe, nslookup.exe and others, you'll see that outwardly they have a > Microsoft copyright, but in the text inside them, one finds text indicating > "Copyright 198x The Regents of the University of California." > > Ed > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <[email protected]> > Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev > Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev > mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe > Back to the original discussion - the license for the protocol documentation is outlined in the link I've previously mentioned - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc207842.aspx As for Network monitor - the parsers are under a BSD license actually - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc207842.aspx Y.
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