[Asterisk-Dev] zapata, zaptel, GPL etc

[Jeremy McNamara]

The GPL doesn't stop anyone from using Asterisk in a commercial venture. 
He just cannot enhance Asterisk without either releasing any 
enhancements back to the GPL or paying Digium for a NON-GPL license.


Jeremy McNamara



Hemant Kumar wrote:

>he wants sell not use
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>From: "Jeremy McNamara" <jj at indie.org>
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>Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 8:55 PM
>Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Dev] zapata, zaptel, GPL etc
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>>Why bother?   Just use Asterisk. I'm certain it is far superior to any 
>>proprietary software.
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>>Jeremy McNamara
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>>Vinod Sankar wrote:
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>>>Hello,
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>>>I purchased 2 E1 cards from Digium and am trying to integrate
>>>it into our proprietary commercial VoIP software. I'm very confused
>>>about the licensing requirements for using the appropriate libraries
>>>for this. There is zapata code from zapatatelephony that seems 
>>>to be in public domain, but only available on FreeBSD, and there
>>>is zaptel on linux which is GPL. I'm using linux. Does anybody know 
>>>what libraries are needed so that the VoIP software can simply 'open'
>>>the E1 ISDN PRI voice circuits and 'play' or 'record' voice streams
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>>>from and to it ? Can I use these libraries without making my whole
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>>>app GPL ? 
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>>>thanks,
>>>Vinod Sankar
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