Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Request: Change the allowed license of plugins

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From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 01:16:55 +0100
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 11:02:14AM +1100, Tim Potter wrote:
> To simplify things a bit (OK a lot), I might take the stance that if you 
> aren't going to share with me then I'm not going to share with you in which
> case I would make my software GPL.  If I didn't care what people did
> with my software as long as they respected the original copyright then I
> might go BSD.  

The special case with ethereal plugins is, that companies providing binary
only dissectors *are* sharing something: Knowledge about network protocols.

They also cannot modify the UI nor the core (tvbuffs, normal dissctors)
without giving that back.

  Ciao
         Jörg
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Joerg Mayer                                          <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
I found out that "pro" means "instead of" (as in proconsul). Now I know
what proactive means.