[ddutt@xxxxxxxxx]

Hi,

Christopher K.  St.  John writes:
 >  Modifying the licence makes your life easier, but other people's
 > life considerably harder. Besides the issues surrounding contacting
In what way ? Some of us have to contact all the contributors which is a lot of
work. But as a contributor of code to Ethereal, how does this change make your
life harder ? 

 > all the contributors about the license change, there's also the
 > implicit threat that Cisco considers the existing plugins to be
 > a violation of their patent. Thats the only way it makes sense, right?
I don't see how you reach that conclusion at all. 

 > Either writing a plugin for a Cisco protocol is a controlled use of
 > the patent, or it's not. If it's not, then Cisco's request doesn't
It is not the writing of the decoder of a protocol that is the problem. It is
its release under GPL and its effect on patent invalidation that is the
problem. 

Dinesh
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