Sebastien Tandel schrieb:
Phillip Paradis wrote:
One might be able to do as Nvidia/ATI et. al. do with their drivers.
Just to mention that it won't be possible anymore to load a non-GPL
module into the kernel after the 1st January 2008. It seems that kernel
people (probably assisted by lawyers) have decided that non-GPL kernel
module infringes the GPL license. ;)
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/475654/focus=47579
Well, to anyone in this discussion - this discussion about circumventing
the GPL really annoys me.
If you don't want to agree with the terms of the GPL, just go away -
it's that simple. You'll try to gain the benefits of other peoples work,
without giving anything back. No one forces you to write a dissector for
Wireshark and we don't want to see it in any other form than the GPL -
if you want to release it to someone else. Feel free to write your own
analyzer or buy a commercial analyzer product and the corresponding
developer kit for it and do your stuff this way.
And to be clear about that point: If people will start to write closed
source dissectors to be plugged into Wireshark, we as the Wireshark
developers will probably find a way to prevent it - probably not using
the legal way, but in effect.
If you'll try to circumvent the GPL, you'll very certainly will make
people angry about it. People (including myself) have spend a reasonable
amount of time to build Wireshark to be how it is today. Choosing the
GPL wasn't done by mistake, it was intended ...
Regards, ULFL