As noted, Wireshark is licensed under the GNU General Public License. The GPL imposes conditions on your use of GPL'ed code in your own products; you cannot, for example, make a "derived work" from Wireshark, by making modifications to it, and then sell the resulting derived work and not allow recipients to give away the resulting work.

Yes, if, for example, you mean "I work for a commercial organization; can I use Wireshark to capture and analyze network traffic in our company's networks or in our customer's networks?"

Wireshark can read live data from Ethernet, Token-Ring, FDDI, serial (PPP and SLIP) (if the OS on which it's running allows Wireshark to do so), 802.11 wireless LAN (if the OS on which it's running allows Wireshark to do so), ATM connections (if the OS on which it's running allows Wireshark to do so), and the "any" device supported on Linux by recent versions of libpcap.

Ethereal can read live data from Ethernet, Token-Ring, FDDI, serial (PPP and SLIP) (if the OS on which it's running allows Ethereal to do so), 802.11 wireless LAN (if the OS on which it's running allows Ethereal to do so), ATM connections (if the OS on which it's running allows Ethereal to do so), and the "any" device supported on Linux by recent versions of libpcap.

Wireshark® is the world's most popular network protocol analyzer. It has a rich and powerful feature set and runs on most computing platforms including Windows, OS X, Linux, and UNIX. Network professionals, security experts, developers, and educators around the world use it regularly. It is freely available as open source, and is released under the GNU General Public License version 2.

As noted, Ethereal is licensed under the GNU General Public License. The GPL imposes conditions on your use of GPL'ed code in your own products; you cannot, for example, make a "derived work" from Ethereal, by making modifications to it, and then sell the resulting derived work and not allow recipients to give away the resulting work.

In May of 2006, Gerald Combs (the original author of Ethereal) went to work for CACE Technologies (best known for WinPcap). Unfortunately, he had to leave the Ethereal trademarks behind. This left the project in an awkward position. The only reasonable way to ensure the continued success of the project was to change the name. This is how Wireshark was born. Wireshark is almost (but not quite) a fork.

Wireshark is pronounced as the word wire followed immediately by the word shark. Exact pronunciation and emphasis may vary depending on your locale (e.g. Arkansas). It's spelled with a capital W, followed by a lower-case ireshark. It is not a CamelCase word, i.e., WireShark is incorrect.

A#1.8: Because it was considered critical that there is a easily readable text-only version available. Combined with the fact that the maintainer didn't want to spend a lot of time with source translators, this placed a restriction on the type of formatting available.

Wireshark can only capture on devices supported by libpcap/WinPcap. On most OSes, only devices that can act as network interfaces of the type that support IP are supported as capture devices for libpcap/WinPcap, although the device doesn't necessarily have to be running as an IP interface in order to support traffic capture. On Linux and FreeBSD, libpcap 0.

The most likely reason for this is that Wireshark is trying to look up an IP address in the capture to convert it to a name (so that, for example, it can display the name in the source address or destination address columns), and that lookup process is taking a very long time. Wireshark calls a routine in the OS of the machine on which it's running to convert of IP addresses to the corresponding names. That routine probably does one or more of: on Windows systems, a NetBIOS-over-TCP query.

Note that it applies only to our more recent releases (starting in November 1999): Zip 2.3, UnZip 5.41, WiZ 5.01, MacZip 1.04, and subsequent updates. All older releases are still covered by our old COPYING file (UnZip) or the README file in official Zip distributions.

Support for particular protocols is added to Wireshark as a result of people contributing that support; no formal plans for adding support for particular protocols in particular future releases exist. If a network analyzer writes out files in a format already supported by Wireshark (e.g., in libpcap format), Wireshark may already be able to read them, unless the analyzer has added its own proprietary extensions to that format.

Some versions of the GTK+ library from www.sunfreeware.org appear to be buggy, causing Wireshark to drop core with a Bus Error. Un-install those packages, and try getting the 1.2.10 version from that site, or the version from The Written Word, or the version from Sun's GNOME distribution, or the version from the supplemental software CD that comes with the Solaris media kit, or build it from source from the GTK Web site. Update the GLib library to the 1.2.

Wireshark can only be linked with version 4.2.2 or later of UCD SNMP. Your version of Wireshark was dynamically linked with such a version of UCD SNMP; however, you have an older version of UCD SNMP installed, which means that when Wireshark is run, it tries to link to the older version, and fails. You will have to replace that version of UCD SNMP with version 4.2.2 or a later version.

When an application is installed on OS X, prior to 10.4, it is usually "prebound" to speed up launching the application. (That's what the "Optimizing" phase of installation is.) Fink normally performs prebinding automatically when you install a package.

The source code to your product does not have to be Open Source as long as it does not contain fragments of OpenGatekeeper or OpenH323 source.

Probably. libsrs2 is released under the union of the GPL version 2 and the BSD licenses. You may choose which license to use with this software. If neither of these licenses is adequate for your needs, plesae contact Shevek at srs [ta] anarres.org to ask for alternative licensing terms and support.

Sure. Minify is distributed under the New BSD License, which means that you're free to use, modify, and redistribute Minify or derivative works thereof, even for commercial purposes, as long as you comply with a few simple requirements. See the LICENSE file for details.

m0n0wall is under the BSD license, which basically means that you can do whatever you want with it (including modifying and selling it) for free, as long as the original copyright notice and license appear somewhere in the documentation and/or the software itself. There are no warranties of any kind though. Although you don't have to pay anything for m0n0wall even if you sell it, if you do find yourself making money by selling m0n0wall-based products, a donation would be very much appreciated.

Yes. Squirrel is distributed under zlib/libpng license and is 100% free for both commercial and non-commercial products.

this stage it is a pre-commercial product that was developed to confirm its feasibility for application to both domestic and international markets. As a result of field tests conducted in an extensive product validation program, we have identified a variety of improvements that are being incorporated in the new BioMax? 25 and BioMax? 50 prior to their commercial sale.

Yes. There are two different categories of PhysioToolkit code, and the rules for using them are slightly different. The WFDB library is free under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). The LGPL permits you to use (or sell, or give away) the library with your own code. The only significant restriction is that you must make the sources for the library itself freely available. You do not need to disclose the sources for your own code simply because you have used the WFDB library with it.

Sure, use your current joystick instead of my primary and secondary panels. Either add a DB25 connector to the back panel of your commercial stick for the other panels to plug into (and wire it into your commercial stick's encoder), or remove the encoder from the commercial stick and mount it in a project box and connect the commercial stick using DB25 connectors like in the plans included here.

Yes, you can use your account for commercial purposes. The World Wide Web has become the most efficient and cost-effective means of making information available to the users of the Internet community and we encourage our customers to utilize such an enormous medium.

Yes. However, you must observe the provisions outlined in our Acceptable Use Policy with regards to permissible email usage, permissible types of files, etc. If you have any questions about what would be permitted, you can contact us at sales@cheaperwebhost.com.