From 6f649ca41b857bba0f6aacb0ca746e2e96f8ca9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Althouse <84981330+john-althouse@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2023 00:21:42 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Update License FAQ.md --- License FAQ.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/License FAQ.md b/License FAQ.md index 951c995..9be6ff2 100644 --- a/License FAQ.md +++ b/License FAQ.md @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ The GNU General Public License, requires that if you distribute a “Work based You can [combine a GPL program](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.html#LinkingWithGPL) and JA4+, and distribute them together, as long as they communicate "at arm’s length.” For example, communication over sockets, pipes, API, or via shell commands, is usually considered sufficient separation, but communication via linking or memory sharing is not. For example, how [Wireshark](https://www.wireshark.org/), a GPL licensed tool, is distributed with and uses Npcap, a [non-open source library](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nmap/npcap/master/LICENSE). -"If JA4+ is provided as a plugin, distributed separately without GPL code, that would be permitted by GPL as GPL has no requirements in the absence of distribution. An end user could then choose to download GPL software and JA4+ and use them together. +If JA4+ is provided as a plugin, distributed separately without GPL code, that would be permitted by GPL as GPL has no requirements in the absence of distribution. An end user could then choose to download GPL software and JA4+ and use them together. This is a general description and is not intended to provide you with legal advice. If you need more help understanding GPL, you should contact an open source licensing specialist. If you need an exception from GPL, that might be available from the authors of the GPL software, but FoxIO cannot provide it.