Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Making a draft plugin available

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Richard Achmatowicz wrote:

> The plugin source is freely available at 
> http://javagroups.cvs.sourceforge.net/javagroups/wireshark-plugin.
> Rather than requiring users to download wireshark, download the plugin 
> and then modify the wireshark distribution by hand to incorporate the 
> plugin, we would like to make prepared wireshark binaries freely 
> available on the  JGroups SourceForge project, complied for a few of the 
> most common OSs.
>
> Are there any licensing issues to be taken into account before doing this?

jgroups/COPYING is the GPLv2, so you've taken care of the biggest 
licensing issue there.  Just follow all the constraints in that 
document; there's no licensing issue with making binaries available, as 
long as the source from which the binaries were built is available (lots 
of GPLed software is available in binary form, including Wireshark).