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Re: [PATCH] enable sniff on USB ports on linux


From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer () loplof de>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 13:46:44 +0200

On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 01:17:17PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
      1) The rest of libpcap is licensed under the Berkeley license, with 
some of it under the four-clause Berkeley license, which isn't 
compatible with the GPL:

              http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses

OOoooops!! So basicall all GPLv2 software that links against libpcap is
in violation of the GPL. Basically that means, that wireshark cannot be
linked against libpcap?

 Ciao
      Joerg
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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer () loplof de>
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