Re: libpcap GPL compatible??? I don't think so :(....

[Guy Harris <guy () netapp com>]

On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 09:12:37AM -0700, seberino () spawar navy mil wrote:
> libpcap license has requirement to print a notice.
>
> I think this makes it incompatible with GPL code.
>
> Any hope to license it under MODIFIED BSD license???

I have no problem with doing so.

However, unless the UC Berkeley letter converting all the BSD code to
the modified BSD license also covers libpcap, which, although I think it
was included in at least the more recent BSD releases from UCB, was
originally separate from BSD and wasn't developed by the same group as
BSD, we'd have to get the permission of, at least, the LBL folks who
wrote it in the first place, as well as the Politecno di Torino folks
who did the WinPcap stuff.  (I don't see any 4-clause BSD license code
in the top-level libpcap directory that mentions anybody other than LBL
or the Politecno di Torino.)
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