Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Update to the COPYING file
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From: Stephen Fisher <stephentfisher@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 14:16:58 -0700
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 10:04:04PM +0200, Ulf Lamping wrote:
> Gerald Combs wrote:

> > Back in October there was a discussion about the fact that we have a 
> > "click-through" agreement in the Windows installer requiring that 
> > users accept the GPL.  After reading through the thread again, I've 
> > updated the summary in the COPYING file to read:

> I'm really unhappy with this preamble at all. This sounds to me like 
> we have a special variation of the GPL.

How about we display nothing but the GPL?  Do we really need to clarify 
that you can't license any part of Wireshark under LGPL?  People would 
be wrong to assume that you can, because we never say they can do LGPL.


Steve