Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Request: Change the allowed license of plugins

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From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 01:07:16 +0100
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 08:18:56AM -0800, ddutt@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Do we need the consent from all of them or only those who have contributed to
> plugins ? I suspect it is the former, but want to reconfirm.

That's the viral nature (and in my eyes the beauty) of the gpl: if one
(non-trivial) patch in the sources, is gpl, the whole thing must be
gpl (or compatible). So yes, in theory we need consent of all contributers
to the c source code of ethereal (and maybe some generator scripts).

  Ciao
           Jörg

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Joerg Mayer                                          <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
I found out that "pro" means "instead of" (as in proconsul). Now I know
what proactive means.