[Asterisk-biz] Asterisk Ffork - OpenPBX.org

[Jean-Michel Hiver]

> 'illegal' is the wrong term, please stop using it. There is no 
> legality involved.

Yes you are right - sorry about this approximation.

> Whether you are allowed to do that or not depends on the language in 
> the OpenH.323 license; if it does not allow its libraries to be linked 
> with GPL software (for whatever reason), then you do not have the 
> right to do that, regardless of whether you distribute the result or not.

Yes, I do agree. So basically you have the right to link two programs as 
long as each licenses give you, as an end-user, the right to link the 
program. We're going in circles :)

Now, /I/ don't think distributing a build script to do just that is 
infrigement. This doesn't seem to be Alex's case.


> In this case, since the licenses for OpenSSL and OpenH.323 are "more 
> free" than the GPL, I don't think that an end-user doing this linking 
> is violating the license of either Asterisk or the add-on package.

Agreed. Hence, if OpenPBX wanted to distribute a 'contrib' directory 
with some scripts that can be used by the end user to easily download 
and link these packages to their OpenPBX, I don't think they would be 
doing any evil. And this kind of freedom is a /good/ thing.

Just like it would be right for Asterisk to do exactly that. Including 
for bristuff patches *ahem* ;-)

Cheers,
Jean-Michel.