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@@ -89,10 +89,14 @@ the required compression library was available when Wireshark was compiled.
Currently supported compression formats are:
- GZIP
-- ZSTD
- LZ4
+- ZSTD
-You can disable zlib support by running `cmake -DENABLE_ZLIB=OFF`.
+GZIP and LZ4 (when using independent blocks, which is the default) support
+fast random seeking, which offers much better GUI performance on large files.
+Any of these compression formats can be disabled at compile time by passing
+the corresponding option to cmake, i.e., `cmake -DENABLE_ZLIB=OFF`,
+`cmake -DENABLE_LZ4=OFF`, or `cmake -DENABLE_ZSTD=OFF`.
Although Wireshark can read AIX iptrace files, the documentation on
AIX's iptrace packet-trace command is sparse. The `iptrace` command
@@ -236,8 +240,9 @@ Parts of Wireshark can be built and distributed as libraries. These
parts are still covered by the GPL, and NOT by the Lesser General Public
License or any other license.
-If you integrate all or part of Wireshark into your own application, then
-that application must be released under a license compatible with the GPL.
+If you integrate all or part of Wireshark into your own application and you
+opt to publish or release it then the combined work must be released under
+the terms of the GPLv2.
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