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Re: Some questions about licensing/core
From: Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter () xs4all nl>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:43:06 +0100
Hi, Congratulations with your first dissector.Now indeed it's time to look into what you can do with it. As you correctly noticed Wireshark is GPL licensed. That means that software that uses an API in this software falls under this license. That means (in short) that source code has to be provided for the object code which is distributed. Dissectors (plugins or not) use the Wireshark
APIs, so are subject to the GPL.For the second part is good to know that a plugin dissector is nothing more than a dissector with a well defined plugin interface. Strip away this interface and you'll end up with a bare dissector, which can easily integrate into the core. README.developer
should point you in the right direction.The preference for build in dissectors comes from the fact that it makes life for the core developers easier. If you want to keep the dissector for yourself, then by all means keep it as plugin. If you want to contribute it to the general repository you
may get the request to convert it. Thanks, Jaap On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:12:19 +0100, Teto wrote:
Hi there, After having asked many questions on that mailing-list, I finallysucceeded in programming my plugin (still a lot to do but yet it worksas it is now) and starts wondering about licensing. Wireshark is GPL. From what I understand it means that any work based on wireshark must be GPL (if you want to redistribute it and contrary to FreeBSD for example). Just to make sure, does that include plugins as well ? I remember having read that plugins would best go into the core. Is that a lot of work translating a plugin into the core ? I mean right now a plugin is enough for me but if it's best and easy to make it native, I can do it. Once more, thanks for your reactivity over the past 2 months. Matt
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Current thread:
- Some questions about licensing/core Teto (Nov 21)
- Re: Some questions about licensing/core Jaap Keuter (Nov 21)
- Re: Some questions about licensing/core Teto (Nov 25)
- Re: Some questions about licensing/core Martin Mathieson (Nov 25)
- Re: Some questions about licensing/core Anders Broman (Nov 25)
- Re: Some questions about licensing/core Teto (Nov 25)
- Re: Some questions about licensing/core Jaap Keuter (Nov 21)