Can I use Wireshark as part of my commercial product?
As noted, Wireshark is licensed under the GNU General Public License. The GPL imposes conditions on your use of GPL’ed code in your own products; you cannot, for example, make a “derived work” from Wireshark, by making modifications to it, and then sell the resulting derived work and not allow recipients to give away the resulting work. You must also make the changes you’ve made to the Wireshark source available to all recipients of your modified version; those changes must also be licensed under the terms of the GPL. See the GPL FAQ for more details; in particular, note the answer to the question about modifying a GPLed program and selling it commercially, and the question about linking GPLed code with other code to make a proprietary program. You can combine a GPLed program such as Wireshark and a commercial program as long as they communicate “at arm’s length”, as per this item in the GPL FAQ. We recommend keeping Wireshark and your product completely separate, communicating over so
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