[Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Richard Sharpe wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 7:51 AM, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> > 
> > > Are you shipping this modified version of Ethereal with your hardware
> > > product?
> > 
> > Where did they mention a modified version of Ethereal?  (The libpcap 
> > patches - which I haven't rejected, I just haven't had time to look at 
> > them and check them in; changing jobs tends to leave one with less free 
> > time for a while... - should allow Ethereal to capture on those devices 
> > without changes to Ethereal, and if "pcap_findalldevs()" lists those 
> > devices then, once Ethereal is converted to use that routine if 
> > present, they should even show up in the drop-down list.)
> 
> Hmmm, maybe I assumed too much. I went to the web site referenced, and 
> tried to down load the instaructions (sic)[1] but got:
> 
> 	The requested URL /apps/ethereal-dag-build.gz was not found on this 
> 	server.

OK, the file is actually ethereal-dag-build.tar.gz, and all it contains is 
a MANIFEST and a README that describes how to build Ethereal with the new 
version of libpcap, so, indeed, there are no GPL issues at all.

Sorry for any confusion.

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, 
sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com