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proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may

consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the

library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General

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Wireshark is distributed under the GNU GPL. There are no restrictions

on its use. There are significant restrictions on its distribution.

Parts of Wireshark can be built and distributed as libraries. These

parts are still covered by the GPL, and NOT by the Lesser General Public

License or any other license.

If you create a combined work using all or part of Wireshark, then your

combined work must be released under a license compatible with the GPL.

...and don't get us started on trademarks.

The full text of the GNU GPL follows.

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