-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 23:41 pm, Ashok Narayanan wrote: > Putting your (and my) distaste for patented protocols aside, it is not > clear to me that patented protocols are incompatible with Ethereal. I > can see why an implementation of a patented protocol would be > incompatible with the GPL (without the author waiving patent rights), > but I don't see why a sniffer for this protocol would be incompatible > with Ethereal. There is a difference (that I should have put in my previous email) between a patented protocol and a dissector that requires patented material.
So if the patented part was in producing a particular datagram, but there was no patent on decoding it, then there is no conflict. Or perhaps we can do part of it - the laplink protocol that I'm decoding has a patented compression scheme (with clear, patented prior art and probably some other prior art, mind you). I just plan on flagging that content, not decoding it. Brad -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/XO0KW6pHgIdAuOMRAswaAJ9uxvhOcBf5kivzaP5BeBMAzwHaEwCdEiSP DFgsfJbZbXc52EMeRIophNI= =7tv9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
