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

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From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 10:56:11 +0100
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 12:47:43AM -0800, Guy Harris 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.

Yes.

> 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?

No, don't include them into the Ethereal sources. It's the same as with
lua - I don't need several copies of the same lib on my system. If we
really only use a small subset then yes, we might include only that
subset, but otherwise please use separate libs.

 ciao
     Joerg
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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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