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

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From: ddutt@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 23:22:42 -0800
Hi Christopher,

Christopher K.  St.  John writes:
 > On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, ddutt@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
 > 
 > > What drawbacks do you see in changing the plugin license ? I haven't
 > > been able to make out what your worries are. Can you repeat them to
 > > me one more time ?
 > > 
 > 
 >  The main problem is that the whole "The GPL stole my patent!"
 > argument is complete nonsense. Is there really any open source
And your grounds for saying that ? I have pointed out relevant sections from
the GPL license and stated the ambiguous text that is causing the problem. 

 > license that's ok with the lawyers? The suggested license change
Yes, at least I know of folks who're willing to let out licenses under Mozilla
or IBM development license. I even think that vendors will release source-code
plugins but not under GPL.

Also, if vendors release binary-only plugins, they only affect the specific
protocol, not the rest of Ethereal. I'm not requesting that we change all of
Ethereal to be non-GPL, just a specific interface. 

Dinesh
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