Jeff Gjertson wrote:
My name is Jeff Gjertson, and I am working on a license
compliance project for Journal Broadcast Group in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
The scope of the project is to discover what licensing requirements you,
/_Ethereal_/, have for /_Ethereal_/. I am interested in licensing
requirements for single machines, and the breakdown for enterprise
licensing.
Fortunately, I happen to use a Mac running OS X 10.3[.x] as my main
machine at home, so I have a program (TextEdit) that can read Word
documents. Not everybody on the list - and not everybody who's a core
Ethereal developer - necessarily has software that can read Word
documents (they might have OpenOffice.org, or one of the other
free-software word processors, if they're running, for example, Linux or
one of the BSDs other than OS X).
In answer to the questions, the licensing requirements are:
License requirements for:
1 machine:
don't violate the GPL
2 – infinity machines:
don't violate the GPL
enterprise:
don't violate the GPL
server access:
don't violate the GPL
update / upgrade options:
as long as you don't violate the GPL, you can upgrade however you want
update / upgrade fee schedule:
$0 per upgrade
license fee schedule:
$0 per user
I.e., it's free software.
The GPL you're not supposed to violate can be found at
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
or in the COPYING file in the Ethereal source code. A FAQ about it can
be found at
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html
> I appreciate your timely response, and look forward to
working with you and your company.
There's no company, there's just a bunch of developers. The only reason
it's "ethereal.com" rather than "ethereal.org" is that somebody already
had "ethereal.org" when we (well, when Gerald Combs, the person who
started the project, and still runs it) tried registering a domain name.
