[Asterisk-Dev] chan_sccp move from lambda-solutions.de to SF.NET

[Jeremy McNamara]

James Courtier-Dutton wrote:

> GPL seems to live in a gray area.
>
> Take the example of asterisk, which is supposed to be GPL.
> Digium can release it under a proprietory license. They might do some 
> special enharnancement to the "proprietory" version of asterisk, e.g. 
> G.729. 



There is no "proprietory" version of Asterisk.   If you want G.729 you 
have to pay Digium (and Digium pays the patent holders) for the 
non-gpl'd code that codec_g729b.so utilizes. Also, if Asterisk's 
copyright is not clean, Asterisk could not link to Open H.323 or 
OpenSSL, legally because they are non-gpl licensed.



> Is this enharnancement to the "proprietory" version also and 
> enharnancement to the "GPL" version, and thus should it be GPL?



For the cheap seats:  THERE IS NO "proprietory" VERSION OF ASTERISK.



Jeremy McNamara



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