[Asterisk-biz] copyright --may I use it for commercial business

[Nicolás Gudiño]

> If you *sell* Asterisk with your own additions, you either have to
> give the source code of your additions away to the buyer under the GPL 
> license and he can do whatever he wants to do with it - or buy a 
> commercial license from Digium and thus get the commercial rights to the 
> software and the right to sell your customized version.
> 
> Regarding prices for that, contact Digium sales.
> http://www.digium.com
> 

Thinking about this... If he modifies asterisk and adds great features, 
bug fixes, etc, and distribute his version, he must release it under the 
GPL or purchase a commercial license from Digium. That's fine.

*But* if Digium don't have the disclaimer from him, then it will be 
actually a fork because those great changes cannot be incorporated back 
into the Digium branch... don't they?

Another question, can a forked asterisk version be relicensed as LGPL or 
similar licenses?

Regards,

-- 
Nicolás Gudiño