knobik / protobuf-wireshark

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Submit to upstream Wireshark project #13

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago
Protobuf is a popular wire data format. It appears that the majority of the 
issues for this project are related to people trying to compile and use this. 
It would be of large benefit to Protobuf and Wireshark users if this dissector 
plugin were included in the upstream project. Is there any interest in doing 
this and/or has this been discussed before?

I imagine this work would involve:

1) Review license compatibility between this project (Apache License 2.0) and 
the upstream Wireshark (GPL 2) 

http://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#apache2

From what I can tell this project would need to be re-licensed before the code 
can be contributed to Wireshark.

2) Contribute the code to Wireshark. This may require refactoring and/or misc 
tidying of the project according to upstream conventions.

https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html_chunked/ChSrcContribute.html#ChSrcSend

What do you think?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by lei...@gmail.com on 25 Nov 2014 at 5:14