[Asterisk-biz] Asterisk Ffork - OpenPBX.org

[Dinesh Nair]

On 10/09/05 05:37 alex at pilosoft.com said the following:
> It is *legal*, but unless it has been "blessed" by Digium, you cannot 
> *redistribute* the binaries that may be linked with OpenH323/OpenSSL or 
> any other GPL-incompatible software. 

which is exactly the sort of clarification we need from digium. freebsd 
does distribute precompiled packages as well, obviously with the freebsd 
specific patches and openh323 compiled in.

if this is the case, then this has seriously impacted the ability for 
freebsd to provide packages/ports of asterisk on that operating system.

in this instance, it definitely would be safer for the freebsd folk to use 
chan_woomera to provide h.323 functionality on asterisk as this is a legal 
quagmire an open source project (freebsd in this case) cant get mired in.

personally, i am sad that the distribution of asterisk on an open source 
operating system is impacted by this.

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