Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] external plugin and exported symbols

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 00:47:43 -0800
Paolo Abeni wrote:

I (partially) rewrote the standard ssl dissector, adding the require
code to decrypt the ssl application data. My plugin links against gnutls
and libgcrypt.

...both of which are presumably GPLed.

Should we either include the complete source to all of them in the Ethereal tarball, or extract the parts of those libraries that we need and put them into epan, so that the SSL decryption capability is available regardless of whether you have GNU TLS or libgcrypt installed on your platform?