including a wireshark view in propietary software

[Alexander Göbel <alexander.goebel () googlemail com>]

Dear Wireshark developers,

As a university student I just started working for an IT-engineering 
chair. They are working on a software they plan to sell commercially. 
I've read the GNU GPL and your FAQ as well but I still don't feel 
competent enough to judge my situation here:
Would it be possible to include a view of Wireshark in one tab of this 
program? Wireshark would be installed and run seperately of our program, 
but our program would start Wireshark and display it as a new tab within 
the program.
I think this can be considered to be "at arm's length", but I'm not 
really sure.
What about just  using a .dll in propietary software? The FAQ said that 
would probably be a bad approach.

Nothing of this has been realized yet, it's just in our minds so far.
Personally I love the idea of free software, but for this project my 
hands are tied.

Thank you for your efforts!
Best wishes
Alexander
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