Hi Lynne,
As Guy said, Ethereal is Free Software of the type covered by the GPL
Licence.
This essentially means:
You have the right to download and use the software at no cost for as long
as you want.
You can use Ethereal as much as you want.
You can not purchase Ethereal licences, the Licence to use it is FREE of
cost and available to anyone anywhere.
(It is copyrighted and licenced software so tehre are restrictions, see
below for them)
Ethereal is available FREE of charge, you dont even have to tell us that
you use it if you dont want to,
but it makes us happy to get feedback.
You are even allowed, and encouraged, IF you like the product, please feel
free to make copies of it to give to others
you thing might need/want/like it. Friends/Colleagues/Customers, or just
point them to the website.
Use it as much as you want, and give copies to anyone you thing want to use
it or would benefit from it. Please,
it is your right to do so and we want you to do so.
There are restrictions though, from the GPL licence (this is licenced
software):
You are NOT allowed to prevent someone from using the software. You can use
it, so can everyone else. Ok.
IF you make changes to Ethereal, adding new code, etc, and you
redistribute the changed version of ethereal to others,
then you MUST also give them the source code to the changes you made.
You may NOT embedd ethereal inside a commercial product and distribute the
commercial product without
providing the source code to the combined product. Some companies
unfortunately still abuse their rights, stealing the work of others
and continue doing so after even it gets pointed out to them the errors of
their ways.
Those are the bad apples that spoils projects like this.
I am certain you are not one of those/that company so please
Use it as much as you want, give copies to those that need it.
Best regards
ronnie sahlberg
----- Original Message -----
From: "Guy Harris"
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 6:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] How much is Ethereal to purchase?
> On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 04:50:00PM -0700, Lynne_Nielsen wrote:
> > We are interested in purchasing the actual software and that review &
> > decipher the traces after we capture them. We understand that this
> > portion of Ethereal is NOT free.
>
> What portion are you referring to? All of Ethereal is free software
> ("free as in beer", i.e. it costs nothing, and "free as in speech", i.e.
> you can get the source and can modify it and give the modified software
> away - as long as you allow the recipient to get all the source to the
> version you gave them, and don't restrict what the recipient can do with
> the software, including giving away the software, including its source).
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "that review & decipher the traces after
> we capture them"; as Ethereal is free software, there is no restriction
> on your use of it to decipher traces.
>