OpenCSW contact maintainer

[Laurent Blume]

Hello Kruno,

CC:ing the maintainers list for future reference.

About the legal issues, Wireshark is distributed under the terms of the 
GNU GPLv2. Best to ask your lawyer to be sure, see the Wireshark FAQ as 
a starting point:
https://www.wireshark.org/faq.html#derived_work_gpl

Technically, you can create you own buildfarm as described there:
http://www.opencsw.org/manual/for-maintainers/buildfarm-setup.html

The first steps are easy and allow you to get the recipes and work on 
them locally. Having checkpkg allows to get the dependencies right, but 
it's somewhat more difficult. The OpenCSW buildfarm has all this 
running, of course.

If your changes are of common interest, you could get them included. 
More generally, if you are planning to work with Wireshark as a Solaris 
product on the long term, I can only encourage you to participate in 
OpenCSW, where you could keep it up-to-date more easily, and make sure 
whatever changes you need can be applied.
Myself, I had a need it for it and it was broken, so I fixed it, but I 
have little time for it now.

HTH,

Laurent


Le 2014/11/24 14:30 +0100, Kfranic a écrit:
> Hello,
> I have one question about repackaging the openCSW Wireshark package.
> We would like to unpack it, make some changes then repackage it and provide that package to the customer.
> I am finding it difficult to get the info if this is allowed or not, do you have info if this is allowed and if so under which license?
>
> Any info would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Br,
> Kruno
>