[Asterisk-biz] Asterisk Ffork - OpenPBX.org

[Jean-Michel Hiver]

Jeremy McNamara a écrit :

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

This is complete nonsense. The end user can do /whatever he likes/ with 
GPL software, /including linking it with commercial software/. The GPL 
restrictions only apply to /redistribution rights/.

So openpbx could release a couple of handy scripts so that end users can 
easily link the software with whatever they like and there would be no 
infringement.

Cheers,
Jean-Michel.