Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Security race in ethereal leading to root access

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From: Bill Fumerola <billf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 20:18:14 -0400 (EDT)
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Gilbert Ramirez wrote:

> These are two very good reasons to continue development of wiretap. We
> could jump-start the development of wiretap capture filters by changing
> wiretap to the BSD license, then use a lot of the filter code used
> in libpcap. I'm not worried about providing one tarball with two distinct
> sections of code that have difference licenses. Ssh does this with zlib.
> But of course, neither ssh nor zlib are GPLed.

Changing wiretap to the BSD license would allow {Open,Net,Free}BSD to bring
it into the system with one less argument.

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