[Fedora-legal-list] FC12: wireshark: GPLv2 and GPLv3+

Rakesh Pandit rakesh.pandit at gmail.com
Sat Nov 28 08:40:07 UTC 2009


2009/11/28 Julius Davies wrote:
> GPLv2,GPLv2+
> wireshark-1.2.2/epan/dissectors/packet-dlm3.c
>
>
> GPLv3+
> wireshark-1.2.2/tools/pidl/lib/Parse/Pidl/Samba4/Template.pm
>
>
>
> The strict GPLv2 in packet-dlm3.c is coming from this:
>
>
> /*
>  * #defines are mostly copied from
>  * *.[ch] files in linux/fs/dlm/ and linux/include/linux/dlm.h
>  *
>  * dlm_internal.h:
>  * -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>  **  Copyright (C) Sistina Software, Inc.  1997-2003  All rights reserved.
>  **  Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Red Hat, Inc.  All rights reserved.
>  **
>  **  This copyrighted material is made available to anyone wishing to use,
>  **  modify, copy, or redistribute it subject to the terms and conditions
>  **  of the GNU General Public License v.2.
>  * -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>  */
>
>
[..]

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