[Asterisk-biz] Asterisk Ffork - OpenPBX.org

[Paul]

trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 12:42 -0400, Paul wrote:
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>>That's why the open source version of staroffice became openoffice.org 
>>rather than openoffice(somebody else owns that). Maybe digium needs to 
>>consider allowing a name like openasterisk or asteriskorg to be used 
>>freely in order to preserve rights for Asterisk(tm)?
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>Why if someone wants to fork asterisk and call it openpbx they are free
>under the terms of the GPL to do exactly that.  WHy do they have to get
>permission from digium to use an alternate name selected by digium?  The
>GPL was not designed to give developers so much power like that, instead
>it was designed to allow people to do exactly what is happening.  All
>the heating emotions over someone saying 'hey this is a good thing, but
>I wanna put my persoinal touches to it' I just dont understand.
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>If people dont like forks dont GPL your code.  Its that simple.  If you
>want GPLed code expect forks, and infact relish them because it says
>that someone somewhere is stating you did a good enough job, otherwise
>they would start from scratch.
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What I was suggesting is that the trademarked name should not be used as 
the name of a gpl package if you want to control its usage by distros or 
individuals. I never heard of this before with gpl programs. You 
download foo.tar.gz and build foo. The distros produce foo.rpm and 
foo.deb packages.