Wireshark-dev: [Wireshark-dev] including a wireshark view in propietary software
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From: Alexander Göbel <alexander.goebel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:45:15 +0100
Dear Wireshark developers,
As a university student I just started working for an IT-engineering chair. They are working on a software they plan to sell commercially. I've read the GNU GPL and your FAQ as well but I still don't feel competent enough to judge my situation here: Would it be possible to include a view of Wireshark in one tab of this program? Wireshark would be installed and run seperately of our program, but our program would start Wireshark and display it as a new tab within the program. I think this can be considered to be "at arm's length", but I'm not really sure. What about just using a .dll in propietary software? The FAQ said that would probably be a bad approach. 

Nothing of this has been realized yet, it's just in our minds so far.
Personally I love the idea of free software, but for this project my hands are tied. 

Thank you for your efforts!
Best wishes
Alexander