[Asterisk-biz] Small / embedded system recommendations

[janvb at caselaboratories.com]

Interesting discussion taken into account that Asterisk has the same 
'problem'.

I think you all forget something!

I can write a piece of code and distribute it under what f..ing license 
I like as long as it is my code (at least originally). this is what both 
the swedes (MySQL) and Digium are doing.

The fork idea is interesting, but I for one would not bet my money on 
the OpenPBX boys if Digium take them to court --- and you are pretty 
stupid if you believe that Marc will not consider protecting his 
business (he would be stupid not to).

Maybe my interpretation is wrong, but I understand that you are ok to 
resell a system that include GPL'ed code as long as the source code is 
included....?

jvb


trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 10:05 +0100, Ron Arts wrote:
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>>Well, IANAL but I think this has not been tested in court, and there
>>is no way you can be sure you can get away with it.
>>Being devil's advocate I could make a case this is just plain fraud.
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>I dont think forking the code is fraud and any claim they have that it
>is, when it was *them* that chose to release under the gpl which
>specifically allows forks to occur would be very questionable.
>
>I wouldnt want to be the test case either, however if they dont like the
>gpl they shouldnt have picked it.  How can they in all honesty sue
>postgress for a gpl violation and then say the gpl doesnt apply to the
>very same code when they are on the other side of the fence?
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