Unfortunately, when I left we weren’t able to come to an agreement on the trademarks and they stayed behind. At the time this provided valuable legal protection for the project. Several years ago, my former employer (NIS) registered trademarks for the Ethereal name and logo. John R.’s synopsis is essentially correct. I’ll try to answer them in this message and the next. Here is his (lightly edited for typos and emphasis) explanation of events:Ī lot of questions have been flying around about the name change. Thursday night, Combs sent a long message to the developer’s list, which directly answers most of the lingering questions and removes the mystery behind the move. Several speculated on the secrecy and suddenness of the move. Several developers were not happy with the sketchy explanation for the change and demanded to know more about what was happening. A prerelease version, 0.99.1pre1, is available for download right now at. The next version of Wireshark will be 0.99.1. All recent source code submissions have been checked into the new repository, and automated builds are available at. The web site, mailing lists, bug tracker, SVN repository, buildbot, and other resources are already in place. We’re continuing development under the name “Wireshark”, at. The move also means a major change for the project. This means that I get to work with Loris Degioanni and Gianluca Varenni, and that my wife and I get to raise our daughter in Davis, CA. I recently accepted a job with CACE Technologies, best known for WinPcap. His initial announcement to the list provided some explanation: Gerald Combs, founder of the Ethereal project - billed as the world’s most popular network protocol analyzer - caused a flurry of excitement among users and developers Wednesday when he announced on the Ethereal developers mailing list that he was changing jobs, moving to a new location, and taking the project and its core developers with him as he leaves.
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