Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Questions about Submission of dissectors

From: Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 13:16:27 +0100


2015-01-10 13:14 GMT+01:00 Bálint Réczey <balint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Hi,

2015-01-10 13:08 GMT+01:00 Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi Christopher,
>
> 2015-01-09 21:51 GMT+01:00 Christopher Sheldahl
> <christopher.sheldahl@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>> My company has developed a number of dissectors for our own protocols, and
>> we are interested in possibly having them incorporated into the main
>> Wireshark distribution.
>>
>> We have a few questions related to this process.
>>
>> 1) Could our dissectors be incorporated into the main Wireshark
>> distribution after code review?
>
>
> Yes your dissectors can be incorporated once they pass the review stage.
> Please read
> https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html_chunked/ChSrcContribute.html for
> more details on the process. The patch should be done against master branch.
>
>>
>>
>> 2) Is there an official form for contributions, covering legal aspects?
>
>
> The source code must be under GPL 2.0.
I think GPL 2.0+ would be more future-proof.


Oops you are right.