Joerg Mayer schrieb: > Samba's svn has made the switch from GPLv2 to GPLv3. While I don't see > any problem in including a GPLv3 tool (pidl) into the Wireshark repository > I have a question regarding the license of the generated dissectors. So > far the generated dissectors don't contain a license statement (nor a > copyright statement), nor does the README accompanying the tool. So my > question is: Can we still use the pidl tool from Samba to generate > source files for Wireshark? > I guess *using* GPLv3 tools is safe here, otherwise you couldn't even use the upcoming gcc. However, the safest bet is to simply ask them ;-)
Another thing would be to use code/data from GPLv3 samba, which is a problem as GPLv2 and v3 is *not* compatible. In addition: If the samba tools would start to include GPLv3 headers into the generated files, we must stop using them - or keep an older version! Regards, ULFL _______________________________________________ Wireshark-dev mailing list Wireshark-dev@wireshark.org http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev
