Chris
I thought that I understood....but now you got me confused.
I thought that if I added the following license block (see below) at the
top of my "open source" or "proprietary" dissector.. than it would then
be GPL'd.
Is this NOT the case..??
Thanks,
Brian
<one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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(at your option) any later version.
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Maynard, Chris wrote:
Brian,
The GPL does not extend itself beyond your Wireshark dissector, but whether you release your dissector to be included in Wireshark someday or use it only for your clients, it is still covered under the terms of the GPL. As far as any Wireshark dissectors are concerned, they are all GPL'd no matter what. Whatever other software you distribute to your customers has nothing to do with your Wireshark dissector so you are free to use whatever license you want for that, but the Wireshark dissectors must be GPL'd. I'm not sure you understand this.
BTW, I (and many others I'm sure), are in the same boat as you. I've written many Wireshark dissectors for my company, none of which have been released outside of my company because the protocols they dissect are all proprietary. The dissectors are thus used internally only and therefore the source code need not be made available to anyone outside our organization. This concept is covered in brevity here: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLRequireSourcePostedPublic. However, that said, the dissectors I've written are still covered under the GPL per http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLModuleLicense. I do not wish to write my own proprietary protocol analyzer so I happily accept the terms of the GPL.
- Chris
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Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 11:42 AM
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Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Packet Size limited during capture message
Chris
I will have to look into why my dissector is crashing when I get the Packet Size Limited during capture message.
I am an employee of Dark Corner Software. I am writing the dissector for our clients that use our software.
I have fixed the license issue. Attached is the latest updated file that I am still working on.
We have open source software and closed source software. I am trying to get the open source dissector submitted through wireshark so it can become a part of the wireshark distribution (this is the attached copy).
Our closed source software is for our customers only. I have written a dissector for our closed source software for the client. This is where I am getting the "Packet Size limited during capture " message from.
Thanks,
Brian
Maynard, Chris wrote:
As Jakub pointed out, regardless of the snaplen, if Wireshark is crashing, then the bug is in the dissector, although IMO the biggest bug in the dissector is still the incompatible license.
Brian, please carefully read
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLModuleLicense
Gerald et al, consider this e-mail as a report of a violation of the
GPL per http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ReportingViolation
So until the dissector is properly licensed, I suggest contacting
these folks for support on this dissector:
http://www.darkcornersoftware.com/contact.html
- Chris
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Chris
I just found out that this was captured using tshark.....but nobody
knows what the snaplen was.
So my questions is.... My code is working correctly then....And that
this was just a bad judgment of the wrong snaplen......correct..??
Thanks,
Brian
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