Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Policy regarding adding proprietary protocols?

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From: "Ronnie Sahlberg" <sahlberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 22:57:37 +1000
Go ahead.
Ethereal already supports several protocols that are either  not documented,
obsolete/historical,
or not published.
The ethereal developers might not be able to verify or fix bugs in the
dissector though.
For some protocols, ethereal is the only available reference/documentation
today.

Keep in mind that the ethereal source code for a good protocol dissector is
almost as good as a formal protocol specification, which is bad if your
company wants to keep the protocol secret.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Yaniv Kaul"
Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 10:38 PM
Subject: [Ethereal-dev] Policy regarding adding proprietary protocols?


> What is Ethereal's policy regarding adding proprietary protocols?
>
> I have permission from my company's R&D VP to add a dissector for a
protocol
> used in my company's products, but it's not a standard or published.
> Is it ok to add it to Ethereal?
> I'm talking about adding it to the source code of course, with the code
> GPL'ed.
>
> TIA,
> Y.