Hi,
Christopher K. St. John writes:
> Modifying the licence makes your life easier, but other people's
> life considerably harder. Besides the issues surrounding contacting
In what way ? Some of us have to contact all the contributors which is a lot of
work. But as a contributor of code to Ethereal, how does this change make your
life harder ?
> all the contributors about the license change, there's also the
> implicit threat that Cisco considers the existing plugins to be
> a violation of their patent. Thats the only way it makes sense, right?
I don't see how you reach that conclusion at all.
> Either writing a plugin for a Cisco protocol is a controlled use of
> the patent, or it's not. If it's not, then Cisco's request doesn't
It is not the writing of the decoder of a protocol that is the problem. It is
its release under GPL and its effect on patent invalidation that is the
problem.
Dinesh
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