Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Possible license problem with Ethereal and OpenSSL

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From: Scott Renfro <scott@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 23:12:52 -0700
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 09:40:58PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 11:21:28PM -0500, thewrittenword.com wrote:
> 
> > According to packet-ssl.c, the copyright owner is:
> > /* packet-ssl.c
> >  * Routines for ssl dissection
> >  * Copyright (c) 2000-2001, Scott Renfro <scott@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > so he would need to give his permission for the license change. I don't
> > know if it is sufficient for only packet-ssl.c to have the license
> > change mentioned above.
> 
> As per the above, we don't, as far as I know, use any SSL library, so
> the fact that "packet-ssl.c" happens to be an SSL dissector doesn't, as
> far as I know, matter

Just to provide positive confirmation from the author, Guy is correct.
The code in packet-ssl.c makes no use of the OpenSSL libraries and is
not derived from or based upon OpenSSL.

(Of course, it would be nice to one day extend the dissector to use
 OpenSSL for decryption of the stream when the keys are already known).

cheers,
--Scott

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Scott Renfro <scott@xxxxxxxxxx>                          +1 650 862 4206