Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Somebody said something about Ethereal having SSLDump like

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 14:10:32 -0700

On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 1:41 PM, Hobbs, David wrote:


The one thing though, is that ssldump IS open source, the CVS is at
SourceForge, so I can't see why it couldn't be modified to work with
Ethereal.


As long as one of the modifications is the removal of

3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
   must display the following acknowledgement:

   This product includes software developed by Eric Rescorla for
   RTFM, Inc.
from the COPYRIGHT file, and that removal is accepted by the copyright owners of ssldump, then it could be modified.
The problem is that a BSD-license-style advertising clause is incompatible with the GPL, according to the FSF: 

	http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html
(I.e., "open source" isn't good enough here, at least according to the creators of the license that Ethereal uses.)
However, I don't know whether that clause could be removed; Eric Rescorla would have to remove it.