[asterisk-bugs] [Asterisk 0010144]: No license statemement in the sound tarballs

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The following issue has been CLOSED 
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http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=10144 
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Reported By:                user4338
Assigned To:                jtodd
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Project:                    Asterisk
Issue ID:                   10144
Category:                   Sounds
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     closed
Asterisk Version:           1.4.6 
Regression:                 No 
SVN Branch (only for SVN checkouts, not tarball releases): N/A  
SVN Revision (number only!):  
Disclaimer on File?:        No 
Request Review:              
Resolution:                 open
Fixed in Version:           
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Date Submitted:             2007-07-07 06:30 CDT
Last Modified:              2009-01-09 17:42 CST
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Summary:                    No license statemement in the sound tarballs
Description: 
I just packaged the en/es/fr sounds in an rpm
(http://www.provocation.net/rpms/ ) and put "GPL" as the license in lack of
better. Obviously, the GPL works for code, not for sound recordings. No
matter how I search the websites though, I can't find any reference to a
license for the sounds. Strictly speaking, when no explicit license to
redistribute is given, copyright applies and redistribution is forbidden.
This is not a good situation, so perhaps you could add a CC license or
similar to the CREDITS-asterisk-core-<lang>-<version> files.
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Relationships       ID      Summary
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has duplicate       0012977 No clear license for sound files
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 (0097400) kpfleming (administrator) - 2009-01-09 17:42
 http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=10144#c97400 
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Believe it or not, this has finally been resolved!

I have just uploaded version 1.4.14 of the asterisk-core-sounds tarballs
to downloads.digium.com (English, Spanish and French), which contain a
CC-BY-SA license agreed to by the content creators (copyright owners).

All future releases of Asterisk 1.4 and Asterisk 1.6.x will include a
properly licensed core-sounds-en-gsm tarball. In addition, the Asterisk 1.2
branch has this new license file present in its 'sounds' directory, so any
future releases of Asterisk 1.2 will also have the license present.

In addition, the copyright owners of the prompts have agreed to allow this
license to be used with all previously-distributed (distributed by Digium,
not by other entities) versions of these prompts, at the user's discretion.
That means that for all prior releases of Asterisk, the user can either
treat the sound files as being licensed under the GPL Version 2 (the
previously assumed license) or the new CC-BY-SA license. If the user is
going to redistribute the sound files from an older release, they are
encouraged to explicitly state which license they have chosen, and include
the CC-BY-SA license if that is their choice.

Enjoy :-) 

Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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2009-01-09 17:42 kpfleming      Note Added: 0097400                          
2009-01-09 17:42 kpfleming      Status                   assigned => closed  
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