Hi Christopher,
Christopher K. St. John writes:
> On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > What drawbacks do you see in changing the plugin license ? I haven't
> > been able to make out what your worries are. Can you repeat them to
> > me one more time ?
> >
>
> The main problem is that the whole "The GPL stole my patent!"
> argument is complete nonsense. Is there really any open source
And your grounds for saying that ? I have pointed out relevant sections from
the GPL license and stated the ambiguous text that is causing the problem.
> license that's ok with the lawyers? The suggested license change
Yes, at least I know of folks who're willing to let out licenses under Mozilla
or IBM development license. I even think that vendors will release source-code
plugins but not under GPL.
Also, if vendors release binary-only plugins, they only affect the specific
protocol, not the rest of Ethereal. I'm not requesting that we change all of
Ethereal to be non-GPL, just a specific interface.
Dinesh
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