Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] Purpose of plugins?

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From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 10:11:54 -0700 (PDT)
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Esh, Andrew wrote:

> Other licensing alternatives are the LGPL, and the OpenBSD license. The
> latter is what Apple uses to support Mac OS X. Part of that OS is the Darwin
> project, which is open source, while other parts are proprietary. My
> impression of the OpenBSD license is that there are no requirements. OpenBSD
> code can be used in proprietary products, and source code can be withheld.
> This is only what I've heard, though.

Minor nit: when people are talking about licensing, they typically speak
of the BSD license, as that style of license (mention us in advertizing
and don't say you wrote the code) originated with Berkeley. OpenBSD is the
youngest of the open source BSDs.

Take care,

Bill