Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] libsmi license

From: "Luis EG Ontanon" <luis.ontanon@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 11:07:57 +0200
It does what I need. I still have to figure out the license.

I found about-it looking independently. But, later I found out that it
was mentioned in this list more than once. I like it because it is
quite simple... and BTW I'm almost done coding...

 The problems I referred to where related to "linking twice with
open_ssl (once directly and once via net-snmp)" on my mac and having a
broken executable... But the licensing issue I guess is a 'bigger"
thing.


On 8/12/07, Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 04:55:09AM +0200, Luis EG Ontanon wrote:
> > is this license GPL compatible?
> >
> > http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/libsmi/COPYING.html?lang=de
> >
> > I'd like to allow filtering of snmp Values by name, but AFAIK net-snmp
> > does not allow me to traverse the MIBs, other than that this lib has
> > no dependencies so it might create less problems.
>
> It looks to me that it is. But it might be safest to just ask the
> author. Apart from that: Nice find. It would be nice to get rid of
> net-snmp which is only being used for mib-to-oid parsing and oid-to-mib
> translation but has the problem of tying in openssl with it's GPL
> problems. It also supports pkgconfig, so adding it to wireshark would
> be simple. In case you find that libsmi does what you need then let me
> know and I can add a test.
>
>  Ciao
>      Joerg
>
> --
> Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
> We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that
> works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology.
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