Easiest answer: quote from Bejtlich's web site "Sometimes you have to
make the best of a bad situation, with no warning. Good-bye Ethereal,
hello Wireshark. Gerald Combs, original author and primary Ethereal
developer, left his job at Network Integration Services, Inc. and
joined CACE Technologies. Unfortunately, NIS owns the Ethereal
trademark, and Mr. Combs wasn't able to take it with him. He also lost
administrative rights to the servers hosting Ethereal.com, so he can't
post news of the name change there. So, nearly eight years after the
first public release, Ethereal is dead. Long live Wireshark --
especially with 1.0 expected very soon."
On 6/7/06, Erwin Rol <mailinglists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 17:06 -0500, Gerald Combs wrote:
> I recently accepted a job with CACE Technologies, best known for
> WinPcap. This means that I get to work with Loris Degioanni and
> Gianluca Varenni, and that my wife and I get to raise our daughter in
> Davis, CA.
> The move also means a major change for the project. We're continuing
> development under the name "Wireshark", at http://www.wireshark.org/ .
> The web site, mailing lists, bug tracker, SVN repository, buildbot, and
> other resources are already in place. All recent source code
> submissions have been checked into the new repository, and automated
> builds are available at http://www.wireshark.org/download/automated/ .
A bit more explanation on the what, why, and who made that decision
might be helpful understanding this move.
- Erwin
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