Re: [Wireshark-dev] checklicenses.py

2016-08-08 Thread Guy Harris
On Aug 8, 2016, at 7:04 PM, João Valverde wrote: > See this for a practical concern about the GDFL: > > https://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001 If Debian concluded that "GFDL-licensed works without unmodifiable sections are free", then the GFDL would be OK only if we make sure there are no

Re: [Wireshark-dev] checklicenses.py

2016-08-08 Thread João Valverde
On 08/09/2016 02:52 AM, Guy Harris wrote: On Aug 8, 2016, at 6:30 PM, João Valverde wrote: What license, if any, should we put on our man pages? I think we can just use the standard Wireshark GPLv2+ header here, with copyright to Gerald and contributors. Is the GPL an appropriate licen

Re: [Wireshark-dev] checklicenses.py

2016-08-08 Thread Guy Harris
On Aug 8, 2016, at 6:30 PM, João Valverde wrote: >> What license, if any, should we put on our man pages? > > I think we can just use the standard Wireshark GPLv2+ header here, with > copyright to Gerald and contributors. Is the GPL an appropriate license for documentation, or would the GFDL

Re: [Wireshark-dev] checklicenses.py

2016-08-08 Thread João Valverde
On 08/05/2016 10:31 PM, Guy Harris wrote: On Aug 5, 2016, at 12:17 PM, João Valverde wrote: The Debian licensecheck.pl version prior to the Smedegaard take over was standalone. I think we should import that to tools. We might still want to look over the list of files currently being comp

Re: [Wireshark-dev] checklicenses.py

2016-08-08 Thread Guy Harris
On Aug 8, 2016, at 3:46 PM, João Valverde wrote: > We can either add a path-specific exception for this saying "BSD GPLv2 is > really just BSD for these files" or fix licensecheck.pl to be smarter about > it. I vote, as you might expect, for the second choice: https://code.wireshark.

Re: [Wireshark-dev] checklicenses.py

2016-08-08 Thread João Valverde
On 08/08/2016 11:15 PM, Guy Harris wrote: On Aug 8, 2016, at 3:10 PM, João Valverde wrote: Mainly what I was trying to say is that this dual licensing distinction can already be handled with path-specific exceptions so I guess I'm indifferent to adding more code for this. I view path-sp

Re: [Wireshark-dev] checklicenses.py

2016-08-08 Thread Guy Harris
On Aug 8, 2016, at 3:10 PM, João Valverde wrote: > Mainly what I was trying to say is that this dual licensing distinction can > already be handled with path-specific exceptions so I guess I'm indifferent > to adding more code for this. I view path-specific exceptions as workarounds for defic

Re: [Wireshark-dev] checklicenses.py

2016-08-08 Thread João Valverde
On 08/08/2016 10:59 PM, Guy Harris wrote: On Aug 8, 2016, at 12:12 PM, João Valverde wrote: On 08/08/2016 07:38 PM, Guy Harris wrote: On Aug 8, 2016, at 11:00 AM, João Valverde wrote: There's a difference between "choose license A or B" and "this code is license A and that addition i

Re: [Wireshark-dev] checklicenses.py

2016-08-08 Thread Guy Harris
On Aug 8, 2016, at 12:12 PM, João Valverde wrote: > On 08/08/2016 07:38 PM, Guy Harris wrote: >> >>> On Aug 8, 2016, at 11:00 AM, João Valverde >>> wrote: >>> >>> There's a difference between "choose license A or B" and "this code is >>> license A and that addition is license B". >> >> The

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Documentation error in README.dissector?

2016-08-08 Thread Jaap Keuter
Hi, Yes, you could raise a bug. Or try to submit a change rewording this text. Thanks, Jaap On 06-08-16 12:16, Paul Offord wrote: > Hi, > > > > README.dissector describes two accessor functions that access null terminated > strings and return the string length. The document says: > > >

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Lua 5.3

2016-08-08 Thread João Valverde
On 08/08/2016 05:58 PM, Pascal Quantin wrote: Hi João, 2016-08-08 18:52 GMT+02:00 João Valverde mailto:joao.valve...@tecnico.ulisboa.pt>>: Is moving to Lua 5.3 something we should look into? The 64 bit integer support seems really promising. Hariel explained us that Lua 5.3 was a c

Re: [Wireshark-dev] checklicenses.py

2016-08-08 Thread João Valverde
On 08/08/2016 08:12 PM, João Valverde wrote: On 08/08/2016 07:38 PM, Guy Harris wrote: On Aug 8, 2016, at 11:00 AM, João Valverde wrote: On 08/08/2016 06:42 PM, Guy Harris wrote: On Aug 8, 2016, at 9:00 AM, João Valverde wrote: Is there some reason not to treat "you can license thi

Re: [Wireshark-dev] checklicenses.py

2016-08-08 Thread João Valverde
On 08/08/2016 07:38 PM, Guy Harris wrote: On Aug 8, 2016, at 11:00 AM, João Valverde wrote: On 08/08/2016 06:42 PM, Guy Harris wrote: On Aug 8, 2016, at 9:00 AM, João Valverde wrote: Is there some reason not to treat "you can license this under the BSD license or under the GPL" as

Re: [Wireshark-dev] checklicenses.py

2016-08-08 Thread Guy Harris
> On Aug 8, 2016, at 11:00 AM, João Valverde > wrote: > > > > On 08/08/2016 06:42 PM, Guy Harris wrote: >> On Aug 8, 2016, at 9:00 AM, João Valverde >> wrote: >> Is there some reason not to treat "you can license this under the BSD license or under the GPL" as an acceptable lice

Re: [Wireshark-dev] checklicenses.py

2016-08-08 Thread João Valverde
On 08/08/2016 06:42 PM, Guy Harris wrote: On Aug 8, 2016, at 9:00 AM, João Valverde wrote: Is there some reason not to treat "you can license this under the BSD license or under the GPL" as an acceptable license? Please review https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/16957/. That's still

Re: [Wireshark-dev] checklicenses.py

2016-08-08 Thread Guy Harris
On Aug 8, 2016, at 9:00 AM, João Valverde wrote: >> Is there some reason not to treat "you can license this under the BSD >> license or under the GPL" as an acceptable license? > > Please review https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/16957/. That's still special-casing the dual-licensed files;

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Lua 5.3

2016-08-08 Thread Pascal Quantin
Hi João, 2016-08-08 18:52 GMT+02:00 João Valverde : > Is moving to Lua 5.3 something we should look into? > > The 64 bit integer support seems really promising. > Hariel explained us that Lua 5.3 was a completely different language (a bit like what you have between Python 2.X and 3.X). You can f

[Wireshark-dev] Lua 5.3

2016-08-08 Thread João Valverde
Is moving to Lua 5.3 something we should look into? The 64 bit integer support seems really promising. ___ Sent via:Wireshark-dev mailing list Archives:https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: http

Re: [Wireshark-dev] checklicenses.py

2016-08-08 Thread João Valverde
On 08/05/2016 10:31 PM, Guy Harris wrote: On Aug 5, 2016, at 12:17 PM, João Valverde wrote: The Debian licensecheck.pl version prior to the Smedegaard take over was standalone. I think we should import that to tools. We might still want to look over the list of files currently being comp

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Current Lua test failures on the buildbot

2016-08-08 Thread Peter Wu
On Sat, Aug 06, 2016 at 08:34:10PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote: > > > On Aug 6, 2016, at 8:22 PM, Guy Harris wrote: > > > > On Aug 6, 2016, at 7:47 PM, Guy Harris wrote: > > > >> It also fails on an Ubuntu 14.10 system; the TShark build information is: > >> > >>TShark (Wireshark) 2.3.0 (v2.3.

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Registering protocol details

2016-08-08 Thread Paul Offord
Thanks Pascal, I think you are right. I’ll rethink my code. Best regards…Paul From: wireshark-dev-boun...@wireshark.org [mailto:wireshark-dev-boun...@wireshark.org] On Behalf Of Pascal Quantin Sent: 07 August 2016 20:52 To: Developer support list for Wireshark Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Reg