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Re: including a wireshark view in propietary software
From: Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter () xs4all nl>
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:11:26 +0100
... they'll have to provide the GPL'ed source code too. Thanks, Jaap Joshua (Shiwei) Zhao wrote:
I'm curious on another case: if they don't want to release all their source code, but they are not selling. They only pass it to partners for free. Thanks, Joshua On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Martin Visser <martinvisser99 () gmail com> wrote:Joshua, GPL does not stop anyone selling the software, but it protects access to the source code. (Lots of people sell GPL software based solutions, but as long as they provide free access to the source code (and they can charge nominal costs for distribution of the source code) then this is OK). Regards, Martin MartinVisser99 () gmail com On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Joshua (Shiwei) Zhao <swzhao () gmail com> wrote:So if someone modified Wireshark, they cannot sell that for commercial purpose. But is it ok if they simply pass that to a partner for free as a coopoeration? Thanks, Joshua On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter () xs4all nl> wrote:Alexander Göbel wrote:Dear Wireshark developers, As a university student I just started working for an IT-engineering chair. They are working on a software they plan to sell commercially. I've read the GNU GPL and your FAQ as well but I still don't feel competent enough to judge my situation here: Would it be possible to include a view of Wireshark in one tab of this program? Wireshark would be installed and run seperately of our program, but our program would start Wireshark and display it as a new tab within the program. I think this can be considered to be "at arm's length", but I'm not really sure. What about just using a .dll in propietary software? The FAQ said that would probably be a bad approach. Nothing of this has been realized yet, it's just in our minds so far. Personally I love the idea of free software, but for this project my hands are tied. Thank you for your efforts! Best wishes AlexanderHi Alexander, As the text says "at arm's length", which means something like communicating with Wireshark through the channels provided by the underlying OS (like pipes or even files) is oke. Incorporating compiled code and use it's external interfaces, like including a DLL does make the GNU GPL applicable to your software. If you can channel the Wireshark screen output through an OS mechanism into a view in your application that probably doesn't make the GNU GPL apply to your software. So far I haven't seen such integration of an GPL'ed application in another program, so I might have missed something. Thanx, Jaap
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Current thread:
- Re: including a wireshark view in propietary software Joshua (Shiwei) Zhao (Dec 02)
- Re: including a wireshark view in propietary software Martin Visser (Dec 02)
- Re: including a wireshark view in propietary software Joshua (Shiwei) Zhao (Dec 02)
- Re: including a wireshark view in propietary software Jaap Keuter (Dec 02)
- Re: including a wireshark view in propietary software Stephen Fisher (Dec 02)
- Re: including a wireshark view in propietary software Joshua (Shiwei) Zhao (Dec 02)
- Re: including a wireshark view in propietary software Joshua (Shiwei) Zhao (Dec 02)
- Re: including a wireshark view in propietary software Martin Visser (Dec 02)