Ah, that makes sense.  All he said in the pasted message and in the FAQ was 
that he changed employers and had to change the name as a result.  The 
"little" part about NIS holding the trademark was left out!

On Friday 09 June 2006 12:39, Alan Dayley wrote:
> 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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