[asterisk-biz] 2008 Predictions

[Trixter aka Bret McDanel]

On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 13:37 -0500, Scott Plante wrote:
> Digium owns the copyright, but licensed the code under GPL. 

Technically digium doesnt own all the copyright.  They own a trademark
on the name 'asterisk' and they own some of the copyrights.  What they
have is carte blanche on licensing.  The disclaimer does not assign
copyright to digium, the individual coders still own that (and they can
do whatever they personally want with their code), however they gave
digium the right to license any contributions any way digium sees fit.

This was the way from either the very begining or very close to it, as
if the plan was always to commercialize the project in parallel with the
open one.

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