Re: pcap format / standard(s)

[Jesse Norell <jesse () kci net>]

On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 11:40 -0400, Carter Bullard wrote:
> Hey Jesse,
> Why not just reference annex A? It is already a standard that
> CALEA recognizes.  The wiki is not the first compilation of the
> information you're interested in referencing (hasn't changed
> since the first implementation so way back when, other than
> the timestamp precision field, which is always zero anyay),

  I'm more concerned about direct cut & paste (copyright infringement)
than just compiling the info in one place; do you know if the wiki is
simply a copy of some other source?  (I've not found any other
"original" source for that exact text in a little searching.)

  Your suggestion is a possibility though, I'll kick it past the group.

Thanks,
Jesse


> and from the perspective of safe harbor, referencing libpcap
> is not going to be helpful with CALEA, but referencing
> CM-SP-CBI20.0-I01-070611 will go a good way.
>
> Carter
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> On Oct 4, 2007, at 5:34 PM, Jesse Norell wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 16:31 -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> > > You would be correct in assuming that what is actually in use  
> > > today is
> > >
> > >         http://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/LibpcapFileFormat
> >
> >
> >   I'm wondering about the copyright implications of including content
> > from that wiki in a published standard (just like annex A of
> > http://www.cablemodem.com/downloads/specs/CM-SP-CBI2.0-I01-070611.pdf
> > has).  The wiki says, "Original content on this site is available  
> > under
> > the GNU General Public License." and as best I can find, that wiki is
> > the original place that file format info was put together.  Having  
> > read
> > the GNU General Public License, I still don't know how to properly  
> > apply
> > it / what would be allowed here; but I believe I can get explicit
> > permission to include the content in an otherwise non-GPL work, so  
> > I'll
> > just ask for that.  We're putting together a CALEA standard that  
> > will be
> > publicly available; may we include content from that wiki?  Or can
> > anyone explain how the GPL would be applied to this situation?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jesse
> >
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