Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Request: Change the allowed license of plugins

[ddutt@xxxxxxxxx]

Hi Ronnie,

Another point is that companies maybe perfectly willing to release the source
of the decoder as well under a different license which doesn't affect the
patent. However, right now Ethereal is all GPL and therefore I cannot release
the source under another license such that the patent is not affected. Changing
the license of the plugin as I suggested should achieve this.

Dinesh
Ronnie Sahlberg writes:
 > I will not oppose allowing for binary only plugins.
 > But the real question is,  If a binary plugin is released or whatever.

 > 
 > 
 > What would the plans be for the ethereal developers if a reverse engineered
 > source code dissector is
 > contributed to ethereal?
 > Should we then not accept it for inclusion based on the existence of a
 > closed source one?
 > 
 > 
 > I am not against it, I just dont see the point in distributing binary only
 > plugins since it is so trivial to
 > translate it back into a source code dissector again.
 > 
 > 
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