Explanations for the name change are here:
http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-users/200606/msg00006.html
http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-users/200606/msg00007.html

Nutshell: He changed employers.  Former employer owns the trademarks on
Ethereal and would not surrender them.  Fork resulted since the project
leads evidently did not want live without name control.

Alan

Kurt Granroth said:
> Curious.  Even after reading the FAQ regarding the name change, it still
> makes
> no sense to me.  Why -- if he is the original author AND will be using the
> same code AND it's still GPLed -- is he forking into a new project.  I
> don't
> see any need for a fork.
>
> Anybody know what's going on here?
>
> On Friday 09 June 2006 09:42, Kevin wrote:
>> Changes for Ethereal...
>>
>> >From the Gerald Combs post to the Ethereal-users mailing list last
>> night:
>>
>> "I recently accepted a job with CACE Technologies, best known for
>> WinPcap.
>> 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.
>>
>> The move also means a major change for the project.  We're continuing
>> development under the name "Wireshark", at http://www.wireshark.org/ ..
>> The web site, mailing lists, bug tracker, SVN repository, buildbot, and
>> other resources are already in place.  All recent source code
>> submissions
>> have been checked into the new repository, and automated builds are
>> available at http://www.wireshark.org/download/automated/ .
>>
>> The next version of Wireshark will be 0.99.1.  A prerelease version,
>> 0.99.1pre1, is available for downlowoad right now at
>> http://www.wireshark.org/download/ ."
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