Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Should we really report Ethereal as GNU software in the help

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gilbertr@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 11:20:15 -0500
Agreed.

--gilbert

On 6/25/05, Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi List!
> 
> While looking at the help output when running:
> 
> ethereal -h
> 
> the first output line is:
> 
> This is GNU ethereal 0.10.11.027 (SVN 20050616195114)
> 
> Is there a reason that we report Ethereal as GNU software?
> 
> I would think only the software from the GNU foundation should be called
> like this.
> 
> I assume this is a leftover copied from some GNU software which acted as
> a skeleton, so the GNU term should be removed.
> 
> Regards, ULFL
> 
> P.S: http://directory.fsf.org/ethereal.html states (on the right side of
> the page) that Ethereal is *not* a GNU package
> 
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