IANAL
make sure to only distribute it to those guys in your org that will never
ask for the source
or redistribute it to anyone.
be careful because if they or someone gives the modified version out to a
customer,
as a nice gesture then you will get a lot of bad publicity.
be very careful to who you give it to and that they never ever give it to
someone else.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Shawley"
Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 2:57 AM
Subject: [Ethereal-dev] Licensing/Distribution Question
> I got a question about about distributing Ethereal as an internal tool
> for our field support guys. We have a number of proprietary protocols
> that I have written dissectors for. I have been using it for my own
> debugging purposes since I am responsible for writing the protocol
> servers. Anyway, if we wanted to distribute Ethereal internally what
> are the distribution requirements since it is GPLed?
>
> I guess that my real question is: do we have to distribute the source
> for our dissectors or is it legal to release binary form dissectors if
> we provide links to the source for Ethereal?
>
> Now for the real story... my manager really wants to distribute Ethereal
> since it is a *very* useful debugging tool. She thinks that since it is
> an internal distribution, we shouldn't have to divulge the source for
> our dissectors. I'm pretty sure we have to distribute the source but I
> figured that I would ask anyway.
>
> Now if we do have to distribute the source, is it legal to to dist the
> source on the same disk? I think that our lawyers will go for this one
> since the disks are only available to our internal FEs. Anyway, I need
> some response on this from the legalease on this list.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave Shawley
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