Wireshark-dev: [Wireshark-dev] Fastest and the Legal way to distribute Custom Dissectors
Hi,
I am trying to
understand my options here:
I have written a few
custom dissectors for protocols which are currently not supported in Wireshark.
I understand my options are:
Modify existing
Wireshark sources for the new dissectors
Write a plugin for
my dissectors
I wanted to know how
and what is the best way my dissectors can be made available to customers
of our company. I am fine with giving the sources of the dissectors to my
customers.
I want to allow
customers of our company to be able to decode VSNCP, VSNP protocols specific to
CDMA community. I want to release my custom dissectors ASAP. Which is the
"correct" and the fastest way to get this done.
I think these are
the 3 choices I have:
1) I plan to modify
Wireshark sources, make a custom Wireshark installation for our customers and
ask them to use the "new" Wireshark. I have no problems giving them the sources
of my changes made
2) Make a dll for a
particular release of Wireshark and ask our customers to install the .dll. Again
I can release the sources with the dll to my customers
3) Contribute the
sources to the official Wireshark community. I however assume that this may be a
longer and time consuming process where I have will have to conform to the
semantics of submitting a patch, getting my patches reviewed and approved and
then hopefully included in some later versions of Wireshark.
Can someone point me
out which is the the quickest and ofcourse the legal way to do
this?
Thanks a
lot!
Regards
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