Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Usefulness of checklicenses.py

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/16/13 19:58, Evan Huus wrote:
> I did a bit of work on this, and there are now 31 files remaining.
>
> Some of them (see my recent email on unlicensed tools) appear to be
> just oversights that will involve tracking down and emailing the
> original author. Others just have a header that is
> non-standard/malformed and can be easily fixed.
>
> Some of them are more complicated:
> - packet-vj.c appears to be illegal for us to use, it seems to include
> All Rights Reserved code from Qualcomm.

I don't know about All Rights Reserved stuff but the license that 
follows appears to be a 4-clause BSD license (the 4th clause being the 
"obnoxious advertising clause" which I was once told is incompatible.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html

> - packet-ieee80211-radiotap-iter.c is only available under GPL2 (as
> opposed to GPL2+, like the rest of Wireshark) so I'm not sure if it is
> compatible or not.
> - epan/reedsolomon.[ch] appears to be only under the *original* GPL,
> so I have no idea.
>
> (I am not a lawyer.)
>
> I am tempted to add the remaining list to the "ignore" set, just so we
> start getting emails when new files fail license-check, however I'm
> not sure if we'd ever get around to them in that situation...
>
> Thoughts?

I'd say push to finish fixing up what we have...