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

[Jeremy McNamara]

James Courtier-Dutton wrote:

> Jeremy McNamara wrote:
>
>> There is no "proprietary" 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.
>>
>
> Doesn't what you say here break the GPL?
>
> Extract from GPL below:
>  Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software
> patents.  We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free
> program will individually obtain patent licenses, in effect making the
> program proprietary.  To prevent this, we have made it clear that any
> patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all.
>


No, because there is only one version of Asterisk and Mark Spencer has 
ensured he has rights to all code that gets distributed with Asterisk 
that he hasn't personally created.


Jeremy McNamara