[Asterisk-biz] Asterisk Ffork - OpenPBX.org

[Peter Nixon]

On Saturday 08 October 2005 23:51, alex at pilosoft.com wrote:
> 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...

I am not sure who you think is associated with the project who "doesn't care 
about IP rights of others", but on the off chance that you are reffering to 
my previous post where I called Jeremy bluff on the rubbish he posted about 
g.729, SSL and H.323 I will personally reply:
As one of the many people involved in the OpenPBX project as well as many 
other Open Source projects including Asterisk (Yes, you can find my code in 
Asterisk too) I think Intellectual Property rights are VERY important. 
Licenses like the GPL, the LGPL, the MPL and others are critically important 
to the success of Open Source software and I and everyone I know involved 
with OpenPBX takes great care to not infringe on others rights, or to use 
other people's code inappropriately.

As for inflammatory posts about OpenPBX, it should be clearly understood that 
Jeremy McNamara has no affiliation with the OpenPBX project and anything he 
posts about it should be taken with the mug full of salt that everything else 
he says should be taken with.

Regards

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Peter Nixon
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