Re: [Ethereal-users] ask for your permission

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Eric Shih wrote:
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> Dear sir
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> I write regularly for the website Gotop Co. (_http://www.gotop.com.tw_), 
> which introduces the latest computer software to Taiwan consumers. In 
> the coming two months, I am going to publish a new book about 'USB 
> Storage Devices'. Because of the previous reasons, I think people will 
> be highly interested in your product. Therefore, I would like to ask for 
> your permission whether I could put "Ethereal" of your product(download 
> from internet), in the CD that goes with the book as a set. I regard it 
> as a very good opportunity to familiarize Taiwan computer market with 
> your quality product and to build word of mouth.

I'm not sure you need to ask us for permission, as long as you make the 
source code to Ethereal available, and otherwise do as the GNU General 
Public License, Version 2:

	http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

requires you to do, as Ethereal is licensed under the GPL, Version 2.

However, nobody appears to be developing Ethereal any more; the core 
Ethereal development team are now working on Wireshark, as the note 
added to your message above indicates.

You should put Wireshark onto the CD, rather than putting Ethereal onto 
the CD, if you can.

(I'm not sure why Ethereal or Wireshark would be relevant to a book on 
USB storage devices; it doesn't support capturing USB traffic, although 
you can put a copy of it on a USB storage device as a "portable 
application", at least for some platforms.)