[Asterisk-Dev] Text to speech on Asterisk

[Mark Spencer]

> > 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.

To try to clarify:

We have copyright on our share of the code base.  People who make
contributions that go into Asterisk as distributed by Digium may retain
copyright to their portions so long as they allow Digium unrestricted use
of their contributions.

Mark