The status of Ethereal

Ethereal is an open source software project, and is released under the Gnu Public Licence (GPL). All source code is freely available under the GPL. You are welcome to modify Ethereal to suit your own needs, and it would be appreciated if you contribute your improvements back to the Ethereal team.

You gain two benefits by contributing your improvements back to the community:

• Other people who find your contributions useful will appreciate them, and you will know that you have helped people in the same way that the developers of Ethereal have helped people

• The maintainers and developers of Ethereal will maintain your code as well, fixing it when API changes or other changes are made, and generally keeping it in tune with what is happening with Ethereal.

The Ethereal source code and binary kits for some platforms are all available on the Ethereal website: http://www.ethereal.com.