[Asterisk-biz] Asterisk Ffork - OpenPBX.org

[alex at pilosoft.com]

On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, Brian West wrote:

> On 10/8/05 3:30 PM, "Paul" <digium-list at 9ux.com> wrote:
> 
> > Jeremy, I fully understand your explanation.
> > 
> > The question that raises is: How does a GPL fork differ enough to lose
> > those waivers? Suppose I write several thousand lines of GPL patches
> > to a GPL-released asterisk. I put the patch set and the original
> > asterisk tarball on my ftp/http servers. I don't see much difference
> > between that and a forked project as far as license issues go.
> 
> His argument is invalid in the first place.  The h.323 interface will be
> done via Woomera as will the SS7 interface
> (www.ss7box.com/asterisk.html).
> 
> As for OpenSSL it is said very clearly on the website its fine to use if
> your OS or Distribution includes the library in the base.  Most Linux
> and BSD's these days do.  I think their are very few exceptions to that
> rule.
> 
> On to G.729, this can be done two ways.  The first way is to use
> hardware with a socket interface (which is on its way already) or use a
> socket interface to a software process to perform the same thing.  Both
> are perfectly valid and legal under the GPL.
> 
> So we have thought about this.  Anyone reading this now has the bottom
> line story on what is going on and our view of this matter.
Brian, 

It woulda been very helpful for you to identify your association with 
openpbx earlier, so they don't look just like bunch of nobodies ;)

Also, it would have been a while lot helpful if others associated with
this project not make inflammatory posts that appear to state your project
doesn't care about IP rights of others. That's not the best way to gain
community goodwill...

-alex