<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/8/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jeremy McNamara</b> <<a href="mailto:jj@nufone.net">jj@nufone.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Paul wrote:<br><br>> The patent owners would view locally compiled GPL asterisk and a GPL<br>> fork of asterisk equally. If they permit me to buy codec licenses from<br>> digium and use them with an asterisk that I have modified there is no
<br>> reason to prevent me from doing the same with a fork.<br><br><br><br>You do not understand. Only the copyright holder of the GPL software<br>can allow non-gpl software to link with their GPL Licensed software.<br>
<br>Open H.323, Open SSL and G.729 are not GPL licensed, hence only Digium<br>can wave the GPL rights for those features to exist in Asterisk - Any<br>forked project does not have the right to grant such exceptions.<br></blockquote>
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Even if they finally get it, do you think they really care?
Sounds to me like they are perfectly fine with violating a license if
they don't agree with it, and think they can get away with it.<br>
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What gets me is that they are completely blinded to the fact that any
smart business person after reading this thread will now avoid them
like the plague. <br>
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The good thing is you don't have to sue them, they will simply self destruct.<br>
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