From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pablo Neira Ayuso Subject: Re: Change Packet Payload Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:36:16 +0100 Message-ID: <45D3AB00.7080505@netfilter.org> References: <1171012218.4162.27.camel@LinuxCampo> <1171013512.18531.5.camel@localhost> <45D23748.2090609@netfilter.org> <45D2DA9E.4010005@wengo.com> <45D2DBFB.7040702@trash.net> <45D2DCA9.1050100@wengo.com> <45D2DEDA.7020204@wengo.com> <45D2DFE8.8080301@trash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Sebastien Tricaud , netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org To: Patrick McHardy Return-path: In-Reply-To: <45D2DFE8.8080301@trash.net> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: netfilter-devel-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Errors-To: netfilter-devel-bounces@lists.netfilter.org List-Id: netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.org Patrick McHardy wrote: > Sebastien Tricaud wrote: >> This code is in several public domain or GPL tools. >> For example nessus uses it : >> http://cvsweb.nessus.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/nessus-libraries/libnessus/network.c?rev=1.28 > > Yes, I found some other users of this as well, but as you say, > that doesn't necessarily mean its OK to use. The code seems very similar to the one that is available in RFC1071. I recently added initial support for message checksumming to conntrackd and used that code (slightely modified) indicating the source, thus not explicitely licensing that part as GPL since I don't own the copyright of it. Can we consider examples available in a RFC as public domain code? -- The dawn of the fourth age of Linux firewalling is coming; a time of great struggle and heroic deeds -- J.Kadlecsik got inspired by J.Morris