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Interesting discussion taken into account that Asterisk has the same
'problem'.<br>
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I think you all forget something!<br>
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I can write a piece of code and distribute it under what f..ing license
I like as long as it is my code (at least originally). this is what
both the swedes (MySQL) and Digium are doing. <br>
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The fork idea is interesting, but I for one would not bet my money on
the OpenPBX boys if Digium take them to court --- and you are pretty
stupid if you believe that Marc will not consider protecting his
business (he would be stupid not to).<br>
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Maybe my interpretation is wrong, but I understand that you are ok to
resell a system that include GPL'ed code as long as the source code is
included....?<br>
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jvb<br>
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trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 10:05 +0100, Ron Arts wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Well, IANAL but I think this has not been tested in court, and there
is no way you can be sure you can get away with it.
Being devil's advocate I could make a case this is just plain fraud.
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I dont think forking the code is fraud and any claim they have that it
is, when it was *them* that chose to release under the gpl which
specifically allows forks to occur would be very questionable.
I wouldnt want to be the test case either, however if they dont like the
gpl they shouldnt have picked it. How can they in all honesty sue
postgress for a gpl violation and then say the gpl doesnt apply to the
very same code when they are on the other side of the fence?
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