["Pan, Haizhou" <Haizhou.Pan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What's the final conclusion about Clearsight and GPL violation?

Is using Ethereal as an out-of-process COM server a GPL violation? 
Or lawyers told your guys it would be hard to win? 
Or you all think it is not worth to make a lawsuit? 
Or Ethereal is already famous, no need to make it more famous by a lawsuit?

Or your guys wait for other companies to follow the same step of Clearsight,
and then catch them all to get more money?

I try to get the modified Ethereal source code from Clearsight web site, but
the link is always broken and no reply from email inquiry. Did Clearsight
play this kind of trick to prevent others from getting source code? 

Haizhou Pan

-----Original Message-----

On Thursday 23 Sep 2004 9:28 pm, ronnie sahlberg wrote:
> It doesnt matter.
>
> Use of ethereal in that way is a violation of GPL anf a copyright
> violation. The GPL is very clear in that area.

We need to get clear on this issue. If we are not taking the matter 
further with Clearsight, and as far as I have heard we are not, then we 
can't really jump on people who do the same thing, using the same code.

I'm not very happy about it either, but we have to be consistent. Either 
the Clearsight solution is good enough or it isn't.

-- 
Richard Urwin