[Asterisk-biz] Asterisk Ffork - OpenPBX.org

[Jeremy McNamara]

Paul wrote:

> The patent owners would view locally compiled GPL asterisk and a GPL 
> fork of asterisk equally. If they permit me to buy codec licenses from 
> digium and use them with an asterisk that I have modified there is no 
> reason to prevent me from doing the same with a fork.



You do not understand.  Only the copyright holder of the GPL software 
can allow non-gpl software to link with their GPL Licensed software.

Open H.323, Open SSL and G.729 are not GPL licensed, hence only Digium 
can wave the GPL rights for those features to exist in Asterisk - Any 
forked project does not have the right to grant such exceptions.


Jeremy McNamara