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

[João Valverde <joao.valverde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/05/2016 10:31 PM, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Aug 5, 2016, at 12:17 PM, João Valverde <joao.valverde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > The Debian licensecheck.pl version prior to the Smedegaard take over was standalone. I think we should import that to tools.
>
> We might still want to look over the list of files currently being complained about (and make sure that the files we end up fixing are still checked):
>
> 	'doc/extcap.pod' has non-whitelisted license 'UNKNOWN'
> 	'doc/tshark.pod' has non-whitelisted license 'UNKNOWN'
> 	'doc/randpktdump.pod' has non-whitelisted license 'UNKNOWN'
> 	'doc/sshdump.pod' has non-whitelisted license 'UNKNOWN'
> 	'doc/androiddump.pod' has non-whitelisted license 'UNKNOWN'
> 	'doc/dumpcap.pod' has non-whitelisted license 'UNKNOWN'
> 	'doc/editcap.pod' has non-whitelisted license 'UNKNOWN'
> 	'doc/reordercap.pod' has non-whitelisted license 'UNKNOWN'
> 	'doc/rawshark.pod' has non-whitelisted license 'UNKNOWN'
> 	'doc/mergecap.pod' has non-whitelisted license 'UNKNOWN'
> 	'doc/dftest.pod' has non-whitelisted license 'UNKNOWN'
> 	'doc/ciscodump.pod' has non-whitelisted license 'UNKNOWN'
> 	'doc/randpkt.pod' has non-whitelisted license 'UNKNOWN'
> 	'doc/idl2deb.pod' has non-whitelisted license 'UNKNOWN'
> 	'doc/captype.pod' has non-whitelisted license 'UNKNOWN'
> 	'doc/wireshark-filter.pod' has non-whitelisted license 'UNKNOWN'
>
> What license, if any, should we put on our man pages?

I think we can just use the standard Wireshark GPLv2+ header here, with 
copyright to Gerald and contributors.

Any objections?