Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] plugins support

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From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 11:38:13 +0100 (MET)
On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Olivier Abad wrote:

> I've been thinking about implementing plugins support in ethereal. This
> would be useful for me, because I'm working for a company which uses a
> "private" protocol on its network, and they won't allow writing a GPLed
> dissector for it.

I don't think that your copyright argument is valid: Nobody prevents you
from writing an internal expansion and use it without giving it to anyone
else - as long as your employer is sure, none of the (internal) users
will request the source, there won't be a problem with internal distribution
of the binaries either.

  ciao
         Jörg

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