The following guidelines should be followed by anyone distributing a software
package containing Wireshark:

1. URLs.

1.1. Wireshark web site.

The Wireshark web site URL is http://www.wireshark.org/ .

1.2. Wireshark releases.

The canonical location for every Wireshark source release is

    http://www.wireshark.org/download/src/all-versions/, e.g.

    http://www.wireshark.org/download/src/all-versions/wireshark-0.99.55.tar.bz2

If your packaging system downloads a copy of the Wireshark sources, use
this location. Don't use http://www.wireshark.org/download/src.

1.3. Artwork.

Logo and icon artwork can be found in the "image" directory in the
distribution. This is available online at

    http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/wireshark/trunk/image/

2. Licensing.

Wireshark is released under the GNU General Public License. Make sure
your package complies with this license, or we send in the marmots.

3. Privileges.

In versions up to and including 0.99.6, it was necessary to run
Wireshark with elevated privileges in order to be able to capture
traffic. With version 0.99.7, all function calls that require elevated
privliges have been moved out of the GUI to dumpcap.

WIRESHARK CONTAINS OVER ONE POINT FIVE MILLION LINES OF SOURCE CODE. DO
NOT RUN THEM AS ROOT.

If desired, you can use the configure option "--enable-setuid-install=yes"
to install dumpcap and TShark setuid root.  This will allow normal users
to capture traffic.

4. Customization.

Custom version information can be added by creating a file called
"version.conf". See make-version.pl for details. If your package
contains significant changes we recommend that you use this to
differentiate it from official Wireshark releases.

4.1. Source-level version detection.

The SVN version corresponding to each release is in svnversion.h. It's
defined as a string. If you need a numeric definition, let us know.

5. Trademarks.

Wireshark and the "fin" logo are registered trademarks of Gerald Combs.

6. Spelling.

Wireshark is spelled with a capital "W", and with everything else lower
case. E.g., "WireShark" is incorrect.


If you have a question not addressed here, send it to
wireshark-dev@wireshark.org.

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