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

["Loris Degioanni" <loris () netgroup-serv polito it>]

No problem at all from the Politecno di Torino folks. I'll modify the
licence of our files and update them on the CVS.

Loris

> 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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