[Anders Broman <a.broman58@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Does this mean that we are no longer allowing private closed source plug-ins not distributed outside of companies?

If so isn't that a rather big change of policy?

Best regards

Anders

Den mån 4 dec. 2023 00:26João Valverde <j@xxxxxx> skrev:

Hi,

There are some changes in progress to the plugin registration API that
break compatibility and require manual intervention from plugin authors
maintaining plugins out-of-tree. These changes are rather minor and
concern only plugin registration, not other APIs accessible to plugins.

See MR 13524: https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/merge_requests/13524

Changes required are rewriting the registration code (very easy to do
[1]) and declare (using a C enum) that the plugin is released either
under GPLv2 or later, or a GPLv2 compatible license. The other changes
to the ABI version number are currently not relevant to plugin authors
(no policy change is implied), it just uses less boilerplate with macros.

This should improve the plug-in experience for both developers and users
and may improve compatibility in the future.

Comments welcome.

Regards,

João

[1]https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/commit/90b16b40921b737aadf9186685d866fd80e37ee6#4a1fe9011e8240918e5fc6230c0bcd2e4d3b9c34
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