[Asterisk-Dev] Text to speech on Asterisk

Olle E. Johansson oej at edvina.net
Sun Nov 16 12:13:18 MST 2003


Tilghman Lesher wrote:

> On Sunday 16 November 2003 11:28, Olle E. Johansson wrote:
> 
>>The problem is in the Asterisk licensing, where Digium prefers to
>>have copyright on the Asterisk code base, and have two licensing
>>schemes, one commercial and one GPL Open Source.
> 
> 
> Sorry if I rant, but that is not correct, and it is one of the common
> misperceptions that makes people not want to contribute back to open
> source projects.  Digium does NOT have a copyright on the codebase.

100% correct, my mistake. You're perfectly right to rant, it's important
to get the licensing facts right. There's a big difference on who's got
the copyright and the license to use the product.

/Olle




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