Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Removal of reedsolomon code

[Evan Huus <eapache@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ah, the email in the source file was dead so I gave up, but that looks
like the same person, I will try contacting him.

Thanks,
Evan

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Didier <dgautheron@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 13:07:15 -0500, Evan Huus wrote
>> As per my previous emails, the only questionably-licensed code we
>> have left is the reed-solomon implementation. It is used only in
>> packet-dcp-etsi.c.
>>
>> I have failed to find any other suitably-licensed reed-solomon
>> implementations, and don't have time to write one myself. As such I
>> think our best course of option is to remove the current code and
>> disable that feature in the DCP-ETSI dissector.
>>
>> I will submit a change to that effect shortly unless there are objections.
>>
> Did you try to contact Phil Karn? This stuff seems to be in linux kernel and I
> doubt it's GPL1, moreover he has LGPL code at http://www.ka9q.net/
>
> Didier
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