Re: [Wireshark-dev] The COPYING file (our license) is a mess!

2007-11-20 Thread Ulf Lamping
Joerg Mayer schrieb: > Maybe what we actually need are different license files for the source > and the binary distribution. The binary distribution contains less files > (notably pidl) then the source. I guess it will be a bit confusing to have two different licenses - so I would like to avoid th

Re: [Wireshark-dev] The COPYING file (our license) is a mess!

2007-11-20 Thread Joerg Mayer
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 10:28:15AM +0100, Ulf Lamping wrote: > I've checked in Joergs patch with some minor "wording changes" from me. > While it's better than what we currently had before, I'm still *pretty > unhappy* with it. Maybe what we actually need are different license files for the sour

Re: [Wireshark-dev] The COPYING file (our license) is a mess!

2007-11-20 Thread Ulf Lamping
Gerald Combs schrieb: > The patch looks good to me too. Joerg, can you check it in? I'm going > to get 0.99.7pre1 out tomorrow. > I've checked in Joergs patch with some minor "wording changes" from me. While it's better than what we currently had before, I'm still *pretty unhappy* with it.

Re: [Wireshark-dev] The COPYING file (our license) is a mess!

2007-11-19 Thread Gerald Combs
Stephen Fisher wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 02:30:17AM +0100, Joerg Mayer wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 10:20:12PM +0100, Jaap Keuter wrote: >>> So even though I'm not happy with this stuff it seems to be needed to >>> keep *stupid* people of our lists. >> I obviously think so too, but tha

Re: [Wireshark-dev] The COPYING file (our license) is a mess!

2007-11-17 Thread Stephen Fisher
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 02:30:17AM +0100, Joerg Mayer wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 10:20:12PM +0100, Jaap Keuter wrote: > > So even though I'm not happy with this stuff it seems to be needed to > > keep *stupid* people of our lists. > > I obviously think so too, but that doesn't mean we shoul

Re: [Wireshark-dev] The COPYING file (our license) is a mess!

2007-11-14 Thread Joerg Mayer
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 10:20:12PM +0100, Jaap Keuter wrote: > So even though I'm not happy with this stuff it seems to be needed to > keep *stupid* people of our lists. I obviously think so too, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't add some explanations around our additions. Also, the disambuguiti

Re: [Wireshark-dev] The COPYING file (our license) is a mess!

2007-11-14 Thread Jaap Keuter
Hi, Looking at the history the main part was added by Gerald in revision 21806. Yes, it should be clear to anyone what the GPLv2 means but in real life you get some *stupid* questions on it. (I'm all for the view that there are no stupid questions, only stupid answers, but here I make the exce

Re: [Wireshark-dev] The COPYING file (our license) is a mess!

2007-11-12 Thread Joerg Mayer
One of the core reasons why the explanations were added was a rather regular stream of questions regarding the use of Wireshark. It started with me adding a section that emphasizes that libwireshark is covered by the GPL, not LGPL. Later on other stuff was added and I think that the amount of quest

Re: [Wireshark-dev] The COPYING file (our license) is a mess!

2007-11-12 Thread Sébastien Tandel
On Nov 11, 2007 7:59 PM, Stephen Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 10:25:18PM +0100, Ulf Lamping wrote: > > > While i was updating the NSIS installer, I had a look at the current > > COPYING file and was pretty sad reading the following preamble to the > > GPL: > > > Unfor

Re: [Wireshark-dev] The COPYING file (our license) is a mess!

2007-11-11 Thread Stephen Fisher
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 10:25:18PM +0100, Ulf Lamping wrote: > While i was updating the NSIS installer, I had a look at the current > COPYING file and was pretty sad reading the following preamble to the > GPL: > Unfortunately, this text spreads a lot FUD and it is redundant. > > IMHO, the GPLv2

[Wireshark-dev] The COPYING file (our license) is a mess!

2007-11-11 Thread Ulf Lamping
Hi List! While i was updating the NSIS installer, I had a look at the current COPYING file and was pretty sad reading the following preamble to the GPL: > Wireshark is distributed under the GNU GPL. There are no restrictions > on its use. There are significant restrictions on its distributio